Sharing STEM, building confidence and engaging youth

MENOMONIE — Students in Maple Grove, Minn., recently learned the art of cuttlefish bone mold metal casting and about STEM opportunities, particularly for women, as part of a project by three University of Wisconsin-Stout educators.

Physics professor Jo Hopp, Brenda Puck, a senior lecturer in engineering and technology, and professor Brian Finder, operations and management and M.S. risk control and safety management program director, visited Maple Grove Senior High in the spring. They met with members of the Women in Science Health club, a group whose goal is to encourage young women to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and health care.

Hopp and Puck shared some of their experience as women in STEM with the students.

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