North Clayton High School students participated in Georgia Tech’s Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering 2023 Science Technology Engineering Pipeline (STEP) summer program.
Gökçin Çınar/used with permission
According to UNESCO data (2014 – 2016), only around 30 percent of all female students worldwide choose STEM-related fields in higher education.
It is well-documented how gender biases and harmful stereotypes, often instilled in children from a very young age, contribute to such inequity.
Gökçin Çınar, a 30-year-old aerospace engineer from İzmir, Turkey, is among the minority of women who ve pursued a career in a STEM. She s currently a researcher at the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL) at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), in Atlanta,United States. Her work focuses on novel aircraft designs and technologies that could help make aviation more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
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