are still outnumbered by almost 80 percent compared to men, and fewer than 40 of the 4,000 teams competing alongside Girls of Steel in the First Robotics League, a worldwide organization based in New Hampshire for young people striving to grow in the STEM field, are girls teams.
Turcsanyi also puts in extra hours to diversify the field. About four years ago, she started introducing other girls to computer science and engineering. She holds robotics events for her Girl Scout troop to inspire female empowerment, and neighborhood moms have told her that afterward, their daughters check out library books about robotics.
When she works with second-graders at Franklin Elementary school, Turcsanyi uses Lego blocks to teach them the basics of robotics. When she works with high school students from Shenzhen, China, and Taipei, Taiwan, who come through the Carnegie Mellon Feiyue program to learn about robotics, she puts together a more complex lesson.
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