Wāhine Connect student leaders Joy Maehara and Mia Casparian at a recent outreach event. Engineering and other STEM professions have long been challenged with attracting women, a problem that starts with engagement at the K–12 level and continues through college and beyond. At the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa College of Engineering , where female students make up only 23% of the student population, the imbalance is often not as apparent as the statistics indicate, with women students taking up prominent leadership roles within project teams and clubs and winning accolades for scholastic achievement.

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