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The Ford Motor Company is investing in Women’s programs at Michigan Tech.
At a Career Success Day Breakfast sponsored by the Presidential Council of Alumnae, Michigan Tech was gifted $30,000 from Ford.
The money will provide 10 scholarships for each of three summer women’s programs offered by Tech.
The programs are Women in Engineering, Junior Women in Engineering, and Women in Computer Science.
Michigan Tech’s Assistant Director for the Center for Pre-College Outreach Amanda McConnon said, “Michigan Tech offers these programs for many reasons. One is that there’s this gap in the STEM fields and engineering and we really want to work to bridge that. Showing these students from middle school and highschool age that it can be a great career and you could have interest in it and we give them an idea of what these careers could be.”
The STEM fields are science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Michigan Tech Alumna and Engineering Manager at Ford, Cynthia Hodges presented the award.
She says Both Michigan Tech and Ford see the importance of encouraging young women to explore the STEM fields, “Ford chose Michigan Tech for this program because Michigan Tech had the data to back up what they are doing. Over the forty years that they’ve been doing this program, they had data to indicate that fifty-six percent of women that attended the program ended up studying engineering in college and that’s important to us.”
