Girls can be engineers, too

Cal State Long Beach is holding its first Engineering Girls @ The Beach this Friday from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. to encourage fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade girls to pursue engineering, math or science as a career.

Girls from Chavez, International, Roosevelt, Stevenson and Kettering elementary schools will attend four 30-minute workshops involving hands-on activities in the aforementioned fields. According to the CSULB Web site, the activities are modeled not at the college level, but in a way that younger students can understand.

For more information, visit the College of Engineering.