Why Can't Girls Be Engineers?
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Kam Gan, a Chinese immigrant living in San Francisco, may not have ever thought it possible to go into engineering as a career. But an after school program in robotics has inspired her to envision an education — and eventually a job — in this male-dominated field. With this series, My Education, through the perspective of individual kids, we hope to discover how those from underprivileged backgrounds can strive beyond the confines of their circumstances, and to examine what tactics work (or don’t work) in boosting them to a place where they might have a chance to learn the best they can. Find more @ kqed.org/mindshift
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