Program helps young women gather steam to explore a STEAM career

Young women present at a workshop at Shakespeare & Co, in collaboration with Flying Cloud and WAM.

Joy Davis, a sixth grader from Reid Middle School in Pittsfield, is a first-year participant in the Flying Cloud Institute's yearlong girls' STEAM Team after-school program.

Joy said she was interested in the program because "I love learning about planets and chemicals."

Asked whether it is important to her to have more women in STEAM — science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics — fields, she nodded and said, "Yeah, because I want to be a doctor."

The young aspiring doctor was among 17 young women who got together at the Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre of Shakespeare & Company on Nov. 2 to explore their current interests and potential future roles in science, art and society. Read more of Jenn Smith’s article in the Berkshire Eagle.