Monadnock Ledger-Transcript
Published: 1/12/2021 12:56:21 PM
When Mirka Zapletal was growing up, she knew of a few female scientists – Marie Curie and Jane Goodall to be exact. All the rest, she thought, were men.
“I just thought scientists were other people than me,” Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, told the latest batch of Lab Girls participants Thursday night over the first-ever Zoom meeting of the program.
But then after embarking on her career as an educator, she realized she could be.
“I wasn’t a scientist until someone gave me the chance to realize I was,” Zapletal said.