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>As a woman in a science or engineering
field I'm often asked how to encourage

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young girls to pursue careers in science,
technology, engineering, or math, the STEM fields

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and I think it's really important
for girls to remember that they can

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achieve any of these careers just like
boys can achieve any of those careers in

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STEM, and one strategy that I have used
over my career and even in school is to

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develop a support network whether that's
family members, cousins, friends,

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people within your own class
those can be girls or they can be boys.

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But, people that will continue to support
you throughout those challenges that you

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face, because even today now while in my
career at NASA I still have people that

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I look to so that way I can get support
from them and have them help remind me

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that I can achieve anything and that
when I face challenges they're there for me.