The Southwest Virginia Higher Education Center hosts the annual STEM workshops for over 700 sixth-grade girls and their teachers from the counties of Washington, Smyth and Russell, and the City of Bristol. The purpose of the STEM workshops is to introduce sixth-graders to careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics through hands-on workshops led by female chemists, engineers, doctors, programmers, and other professionals from regional industries and colleges. These professionals emphasize the link between their education and the important jobs they perform today. They encourage the students to enroll in core STEM classes while they are in middle and high school.
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