Washington Area Women's Foundation

#our100days Day 65

Help Change the Odds for Girls

Only 6.7% of women graduate with #STEM degrees. For this reason, Microsoft recently launched a campaign to inspire young women and girls to pursue STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) careers.”What if she could be the one to find the cure, crack the code, or invent something that has the potential to save lives?” they ask in their latest campaign #MakeWhatsNext.

Here’s what we’re doing today:

When we encourage girls to pursue STEM, we double the potential to solve problems. If she stays in STEM. Help a girl save the world today by encouraging her to look into various STEM programs like Black Girls Code, Girls Who Code, Girls Inc.’s Operation SMART, and more and watch Microsoft’s latest ad.

Sample Tweets:

Only 6.7% of women graduate with #STEM degrees. We can change that by encouraging girls to to pursue STEM: wawf.org/2n2ReBw #our100days via @Microsoft

Help change the world, and encourage girls to stay in STEM. wawf.org/2n2ReBw #our100days via @Microsoft #MakeWhatsNext