14 thoughts on “Girls In STEM”

  1. After I retired from the life as an R&D executive, I taught in a STEM program for inner city youth age 9-12. These kids, mostly girls, were selected for their intelligence and potential. I was shocked listening to the girls talk among themselves of how they wanted their breasts to grow so they could attract older boys for sex. And that the sex would traded to the boys/men for free drugs. They also sang hip-hop rap songs of sex and drugs. The culture is poisoning these children. The destruction of generations.

    1. She texted me that it was pretty much a 100% success rate. I’m guessing that they’ve gotten a lot more reliable since we were kids. When I was a kid, I just wrapped nichrome wire…

      1. When I was launching model rockets, back in the seventies, I never had an igniter failure. I did have a few insertion/retention failures, but that was before I learned how to be reliable in my own procedures.

      2. Back in the late 60s, I used to take gunpowder from a firecracker and pour it into the nozzle before inserting the igniter. It was much more reliable than using the Estes igniter alone.

        1. Well, when I was a kid, we didn’t have any fancy “nichrome wires,” or gunpowder. We had to ignite our rockets with snow, in July…and there was no oxygen in the air. And we LOVED IT!

          1. Oh you think that was bad. When I was a kid gravity was 10 times higher, we had to use nitroglycerin just to get it to go 20 ft. in the air, which was so dense we had to tie a string to our rocket so that we could pull it back down. I’m tellin ya life back then was tough.

    2. Estes changed the design of their igniter wires in the early 70’s from a straight wire design with spark inducing pyrite(?) coating along the wire to more of a teardrop shaped affair with a larger plug of pyrite at the end to be inserted into the rocket nozzle. With that change the igniters became far more reliable. But I am still glad I suffered through the unreliable igniter days. I had to invent a set of launch fail procedures to cope. Mostly it consisted of seeing if the continuity light was out before a retry and then waiting several seconds with safety key out, and then approaching the rocket carefully to see the condition of the igniter, disconnecting the wire and try again. Two unsuccessful attempts necessitated engine replacement as a precaution. A bucket of water was handy for engine safeing. A got a lot out of the Estes’ Rocketeer’s Manual. And there was this excellent book I was lucky to get my hands on at that age:

      https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7140450-rocket-manual-for-amateurs

      B. R. Brinley was one of my favorite authors growing up. Second only to A.C. Clarke. Also known for these fun reads:

      https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Scientists-Club-Scientist/dp/1930900538

      Because he didn’t treat his young audience as morons but with enormous respect. Now as an adult I give him all due respect.
      Admittedly the focus was on young boys in those days, because, well 50’s & 60s. Society has changed. But I wish even now there were more B.R. Brinley’s out there to guide our young ones.

      There are few experiences better than your first successful launch of a hand built rocket.

      October Sky really hit home for me when I watched that. I mean really hit home. Ag instead of coal, but pretty much the same story.

  3. This is great. I wish we could encourage all children this way rather than segregating them and giving different groups preferential treatment.

  4. Spent 30 years of seeing women and “minorities” being given special dispensation in terms of hiring, salary and promotions in aerospace. As to inspiration for the victim classes, a large majority of science/tech themed movies/documentaries have wildly over represented same to provide lots of role models. 25 years ago, the virtually all white male engineering staff at a Boeing facility I was working at were given a lecture that within 10 years, only about 15 percent of the tech staff was going to be white males. After that lecture most of the people in that room were laid off. 10 years later his prediction turned out to be the case. An ex aerospace manager friend of mine has two white male sons with STEM degrees from high level universities. Both have been unable to find jobs in a STEM field for the last 3 years. I submit this as a background to the above post.

    1. I work for a company that was founded by engineers. We hire a lot of STEM people. Tell me about your sons’ education and skills. We’re hiring if they have what we need. Seriously, we’re having a hard time finding skilled people, especially in many engineering disciplines and in high-tech manufacturing.

    2. When I was in the public schools both boys and girls were indoctrinated to believe that STEM was a certain path to excitement and prosperity. This was around the time the aerospace industry was collapsing and tenure track professorships were replaced with postdoctoral fellowships, largely for Asian immigrants.

  5. In the context of Marxism attempting to demolish Western Civilization, I find I no longer really care about jobs for educated girls and women. In a general collapse, they’ll be eating from the same **** sandwich as the rest of us.

    Pagan Roman matrons were many orders of magnitude better off than the women of the Medieval Christian nobility that followed. Funny how these things work out.

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