Meredith Wood, a nuclear engineer in Carderock's Radiation Technology, Environmental Occupational Safety and Health, Ship Acquisition and Systems Safety Branch, gave a presentation in the Maritime Technology Information Center (MTIC) on nuclear energy and radiation detection, including a live demonstration of the equipment she uses in her job. Young people just need to see that, and my daughter is seeing it here." I'm ecstatic that she is seeing women in these jobs, because women can do as much as men can. We are learning a lot more about pathways she can take that aren't available at the school she's attending now. "Learning about the battery testing and other research they do here, that was fantastic, as well. She is a competitive swimmer, and when we visited the basin, I saw her eyes light up," Young said. Kiree Young was visiting with her daughter Tai Rosebure, an 11th-grader at McKinley Technology High School in Washington, and said though her daughter was too shy to tell her about it, she could clearly see the excitement on her daughter's face during the tour. Emily Harrison of the Hydrodynamics and Maneuvering Test Branch. On this visit to Carderock, Jenny Oh, founding chair of Washington, D.C., GIT's flagship STEM mentoring program, and other GIT staff members accompanied the students on tours of the West Bethesda, Maryland, campus, beginning with a visit to the Model Surfacing and Finishing Shop and David Taylor Model Basin, hosted by naval scientist Dr. GIT is a global non-profit organization founded in 2007 with more than 50,000 members and focused on the engagement, education and empowerment of girls and women who are passionate about technology. "I couldn't think of a nicer way to celebrate Women's History Month than to acknowledge what our women do here and give an exciting experience to young women in STEM," said Odean Cameron, an administrative specialist with Carderock Division's Technology Transfer Office, who organized the event. The event included tours of the research facility along with presentations and networking opportunities with women engineers and scientists, in keeping with GIT's goals of inspiring girls in grades 6-12 in STEM and identifying pathways to careers in STEM, like those at Carderock.
GIT IT GIRLS PROFESSIONAL
For the Showcase Boys & Girls we host over 100 college coaches each year offering players a tremendous scouting opportunity.Middle and high school students with the Washington, D.C, Girls in Technology (GIT) program met with their professional counterparts in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to learn about opportunities at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, March 29. Regular attendees are state, regional, & national champions/finalists as well as ODP teams, & international teams. We host the most diverse competition of any tournament in our city and some of the countries best teams and regularly come to compete. U9-14 Boys, U9-14 Girls, Showcase Boys, Showcase Girls are the different weekends and we currently use Memphis' 17 field premier facility that is Mike Rose Soccer Complex in Memphis, TN to play the weekends. Memphis Futbol Club's Germantown Invitational Tournament (GIT) invites you to one of the region's premier events! Since the GIT's inception in 1979 it has grown to a 500+ team tournament that now is spread across 4 weekends just to handle the number of teams.
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