One of the fantastic opportunities available to female students (males are included, too, though!) is the Society of Women Engineers. This organization is a national organization with chapters available in most all universities. From the chapter I’m with:
SWE is a non-profit educational service organization dedicated to making known the need for women engineers and encouraging young women to consider an engineering education.
One of the great things that many chapters do is try to inform and recruit younger girls (usually starting from 3rd grade) on up to take math classes and motivate them to pursue a career in engineering.
Engineering is not for everyone, but if you notice your child does have a strong background in the math in sciences, please help to nurture that. If there’s a university nearby, see what programs (many of them free!) they offer children. If only I had known when I was younger, but at least now I know for my future children.
