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My girls came back from the Engineering Fair really excited

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about what they saw and learned there.

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And so I decided to give an assignment that they needed to pick a career in either math,

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science or engineering and create a brochure that told the reader exactly what they had to do

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to become an engineer or a dentist or a geologist or different types of careers.

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And then they had to present that in a brochure type and they just went with that.

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They just loved that.

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It was almost like unleashing something in side them that they were like, "Yeah, I can do that.

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And it doesn't matter how much schooling it takes, that it's going to be worth it

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to me in the long run to go for that."

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Okay, so you've gotten your page separated into three categories where you're going

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to put the presenter's name, the career that they chose, and something that grabs your eye

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as to something that intrigues you about the career of their choice.

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And that way we'll be able to learn more about the career, and they may be able

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to give you some questions that you want to ask them about that-the career that they chose.

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I did a robotic engineer, and I chose this because robots have always interested me.

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I've always wanted to learn how they're built.

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And we went to the Engineering Fair I thought the little blue ones were really cool.

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If you want to be a robotic engineer, you need to have a bachelor's in math and science.

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What would you want to make them for if you did?

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Well, when I was like 5, I promised my little sister I would make a robot

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so she didn't have to clean her room.

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So I'd like to make a personal robot that you can use for everyday things.

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Do you know anybody that's a robotic engineer?

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No, but I would like to know somebody, so I can learn from their experiences.

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And she said, "Once when I was at a geological conference where I met some

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of my European colleagues for the first time.

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They were surprised to learn that I was a woman.

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I'd always published using my first initials only,

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so they had no idea even though we'd known each other for years of work."

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These are the things she believes that you need to be a good geologist: In education,

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you need a bachelor's of arts in geology, Ph.D. in geology.

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She says, "I use a lot of math to develop statistics about the data I gathered.

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I have to know which formula to use to get the right information."

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Why did you choose a geologist for your career brochure?

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Most of my family are in either medical or education jobs, and I thought, "Well,

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why don't I try something different" and I got really interested in this.

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I want to be an endocrinologist, and endocrinologists are diabetic doctors.

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I think it would be cool to be a volcanologist because you get

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to explore volcanoes and everything.

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I did this brochure because one of my uncles is an aerospace engineer,

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and I think that it would be kind of fun.

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What I want you to know is that you guys can become anything that you want to become.

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You can become these careers that you chose,

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and it just takes the effort on your part to get there.

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You can go to any school you want to go to,

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you can become anything you want and the choice is up to you.

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Right? Yes or no?

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Yes. Yes.