Construction Camp for Girls teaching young women they can do anything a man can
The girls start off in a classroom learning from professional women who are already out in the field. They end by learning hands-on skills.
Author: Lakyn McGee
Updated: 6:53 PM CDT June 28, 2021
DES MOINES, Iowa — Girls can do anything boys can! That's the motto for a girls-only construction camp put on by the Iowa Department of Education.
Non-traditional careers are jobs where less than 25% of people in those careers are of one gender. For example, construction for females and nurses for males.
Brooklyn Brown, a freshman at Southeast Polk, said she wants to be an architect, but when she thinks about someone going into that career she thinks of it as male-dominated and wants to change that.