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Mar 2023
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Putting herself FIRST: One teen's experi...

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STEM fields such as robotics are traditionally male dominated. In FIRST robotics, Aparna Srinivasan finds community despite the underrepresentation of women of color in STEM.

RadioActive's Evelyn Jiang has more.

Episode webpage: https://www.kuow.org/stories/teen-all-gender-robotics-team-women-stem

[RadioActive Youth Media is KUOW's radio journalism and audio storytelling program for young people. This story was entirely youth-produced, from the writing to the audio editing.]

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