![]() ![]() I want to be an architect or an engineer when I get older,” Amaya excitedly shared. “I fell in love with it right at the start. Penelope Amaya, 13, chose to attend a STEM high school after participating in a Tools & Tiaras welding workshop. So, in their eyes, the only path to success was either becoming a doctor or a lawyer.” “Coming from first-generation Bengali immigrant parents, I was really pressured to either go into the medical field or become a lawyer because my parents sacrificed everything to come to the US. Now, the scholar is headed to college to study civil engineering. “I was never really exposed to construction when I was younger.” I saw so many tools around me and hard hats,” Rashid said. “I’d never experienced anything like that. Tanzira Rashid remembers attending her first Tools & Tiaras workshop at the age of 15. “If we make it more visible, more accessible, more women will jump on board and join the building trades.” At the end of every Tools & Tiaras camp, Judaline Cassidy takes participants on a contruction site tour. ![]()
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