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(5,770 posts)...from the University of Chicago. I also have two degrees in STEM related fields. I work for a University Affiiliated Research Center. You might say that I'm a STEM- jerker. I work with folks (men and women, and of a multitude of different races, creeds, and narional origins) who all would qualify as STEM-jerkers. Our institution encourages us to be STEM-jerkers by sponsoring STEM programs that provide paid internships at the post secondary level, high school internships, and mentoring at the middle school level. All this is accomplished by volunteer STEM-jerkers, off the clock and on their own time. For the good of our fellow citizens, our country and for the benifit of human kind.
Our latest initiative is a chapter of the Girls Who Code club.
I am proud to be a STEM-jerker and to count so many STEM -jerkers as friends and professional colleagues. Just as proud as I am to be a blow-hard, bullshiter, stand up philosopher.