I think that girls and women have been told that STEM means you have to be good at math and

you hear a lot of girls or women saying I'm just not good at math.

What does that mean?

It turns out STEM coding, you know, building tech,

creating apps, does not require that you like high school algebra. We have to

understand that the field is so much broader than just am I good at math or not.

That's just not true. We have to tear it down.

STEM. Science, technology, engineering, and math.

It's one of those terms that gets tossed around a lot.

It seems like schools, colleges, and non-profits everywhere

are churning out initiatives to do a better job of teaching kids STEM skills.

But despite all these resources, the United States and the

rest of the world are still doing a really bad job of teaching STEM to young

girls. The cost of failure could be devastating, especially in the long term.

And it might be because we've been looking at STEM from the wrong angle all along.

It's not really about technical skills.

It's about recognizing and solving problems in new... really about

recognizing and solving problems in new ways. I'm Gabriel Sierra and this is why it matters.

Today, how the world's narrow view of STEM is leaving girls out.

STEM skills are really required for the workforce of the future.

There are new technologies that are... for the workforce of the future.

There are new technologies that are dramatically

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