Summer STEM programs opened doors and opportunities for us that all students should have.
As young sisters growing up in Las Vegas, we didn’t have the language to define our fascination with science. For Angel, it was an early obsession with questions about health and fairness: Why do some people get sick and others don’t? Why do some communities struggle more than others? Why isn’t there always a solution? For Lisa, it was Marvel’s comic-book character Iron Man on our computer screen, planting the seed of invention and helping others. At that point, our interests were drastically removed from a reality where much of our day-to-day life was in a state of pandemic flux.
