How we connect girls in Brazil to inspiring female scientists
Working Scientist18 Maalis 2024

How we connect girls in Brazil to inspiring female scientists

In 2013 physicist Carolina Brito co-launched Meninas na Ciência (Girls in Science), a program based at Brazil’s Federal University of Rio Grande de Sul.


The program exposes girls to university life, including lab visits and meetings with female academics. “There are several girls who have never met someone who has been to university,” says Brita. “It’s beyond a gender problem.”


Jessica Germann was one of them. The 19-year-old is about to start an undergraduate physics degree. She tells Julie Gould how writing a school essay about particle physics and a fascination for YouTube science videos helped in her career choices.


This episode is the second episode in a six-part Working Scientist podcast series about Latin American women in science.



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