RMX Podcast
Inspiring Women in STEM: Three Powerful Career Perspectives
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[Episode 14]
What does a career in STEM look like and how can we encourage more women to pursue this path? There is currently a shortage of women in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The solution: educating girls and young women on what a career in STEM truly looks like (it can be what you make of it) and exposing them to not only the vast realm of career choices, but how these jobs contribute to building and maintaining the world we live in today.
In honor of Women's Equality Day, host Pendo Mugofwa, Marketing Intern at 小蝌蚪视频, leads a conversation with three trailblazing women in STEM: Sheila Boyington, President of Thinking Media/Learning Blade; Marcia Lee, Business Development Manager of Industrial Cybersecurity at 小蝌蚪视频; and Hannah Waldron, Graduate Process Safety Engineer at 小蝌蚪视频.
Follow along with these three women as they discuss the experiences that shaped their lives, ultimately leading them to their current careers and goals, including how they plan to help young girls bridge the gender gap and gain the confidence they need to thrive in STEM.
小蝌蚪视频 Our Guest
Sheila Boyington, P.E., is the co-founder and CEO/President of Thinking Media, a Chattanooga-based educational technology firm, for the past 24 years. Thinking Media is the creator of Learning Blade®—system of interactive online lessons and printable at-home activities for 5th to 9th graders that has been validated by Battelle to increase awareness and interest in STEM careers with many statewide contracts currently and use in over 40 states. Thinking Media was the creator of ACT-acquired KeyTrain® which has been hailed as the most effective system for improving basic skills, used by millions of students/clients in high schools, community colleges, one stops and major corporations throughout the United States and abroad. Thinking Media was also named to the Inc. 5000 – Fastest Growing Private Companies for 2021.
Sheila has served as the National States Chair for Million Women Mentors since its inception—helping to launch, grow and now lead the state-level mentor movement with State Chairs and Steering Committees contributing to the national, cross-sector conversation on Women in STEM and workforce development.
Podcast Host
小蝌蚪视频 (www.abs-group.com) provides data-driven risk and reliability solutions, including industrial cybersecurity services, to help clients reduce risk and confirm the safety, integrity, quality and efficiency of their critical assets and operations. 小蝌蚪视频 has over 50 years of risk management and safety experience and was recently named one of America's Best Consulting Firms of 2021 by Forbes. Headquartered in Spring, Texas, 小蝌蚪视频 operates with more than 1,000 professionals in over 20 countries serving the marine and offshore, oil, gas and chemical, government and industrial sectors. 小蝌蚪视频 is a subsidiary of ABS, one of the world's leading marine and offshore classification societies.
Produced by Pendo Mugofwa, Brittney Warrick and Daniel Fischer, Digital Communications at 小蝌蚪视频