Laura Young, a PhD candidate, campaigner, and STEM influencer better known to her followers as Less Waste Laura, believes young people should pursue as many interests as they can as they progress through school.
She said you never know which skills will translate into a career.
“My encouragement to kids is to keep your options as open as possible for as long as possible. Because that gives you more freedom than realising one day, ‘I didn’t take a science at all,’ and accidentally closing yourself to this whole wider world.”
More than that, she added, students must be conscious that their skillsets’ applications will not always be obvious. STEM careers aren’t just lab coats and calculators.
“Science isn’t just about having an actual career in science. It’s about having that inquisitive mind. Quite often jobs have an element of technology or problem solving, and many people have never had that exposure.
“Even if your job isn’t to be a scientist, all of these bits about understanding how things work and asking question may still fit into it.”
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