Girls in STEM : building the future

![CDATA[The complexities of today’s world require all to be equipped with a new set of core knowledge and skills to solve difficult problems, gather information, evaluate evidence, and make sense of information they receive from varied print and, increasingly, digital media. The learning and doing of STEM helps to develop these skills and prepare students for a life experience where success results not just from what one knows, but what one is able to do with that knowledge. Thus, a strong STEM education is becoming increasingly recognise as a key driver of opportunity, and data shows the need for STEM knowledge and skills will grow and continue into the future. Those students who have practical and relevant STEM precepts embedded into their educational experiences will be in high demand in all job sectors. This paper studies the influence of STEM education on primary school girls in their early education.]]