GC3: Girls Communicating Career Connections
Healthy Me!
How can science, technology, engineering, and math help people stay healthy and safe?
Pediatric nurse practitioners help kids stay healthy
Kera has noticed that life is very precious—and she thinks it’s really important to make sure that everyone is safe and healthy. Kera is already very interested in a career in medicine, where she can work with children because children are our future. In her video, Kera interviews Melissa Grey and learns all about a STEM career—pediatric nurse practitioner—that she hasn’t heard about yet.
Activities/Things to Do
Find out for yourself! Check out these cool activities that help you learn more about how science, technology, engineering, and math can help people stay healthy and safe!
What are the origins of bacteria?
How do infectious diseases spread?
Have you ever wondered what happens in an emergency room?
Other Careers
Learn about other careers that use science, technology, engineering, and math to help people stay healthy and safe!
Pediatrician
Pediatricians are doctors who specialize in the care of babies, children, and adolescents. Pediatricians work to make sure that young people are healthy and safe and that they stay that way.
Meet a pediatrician!
- Lynn Haverkos is a pediatrician who has also done research. Find out more about Lynn.
- Learn about the path to becoming a physician.
Take a look at THIS!
- Karen Hansen is a pediatrician at the Center for Safe and Healthy Families in Salt Lake City, Utah. Check out Karen Hansen here.
Try it yourself!
Pediatricians work to keep children’s bodies safe. Check out these links about different parts of the body!
- Learn more about the body by testing your own strength.
- What’s your lung capacity and why does it matter? Find out by doing this TryScience experiment!
- This article discusses just how important your bones are.
- Learn the major bones of the human body using this drag & drop interactive.
How do I do this?
- Learn more about what it’s like to be a doctor and what you’ll need to do to get there.
Biomedical Engineer
Biomedical engineers use engineering skills to create devices or develop new procedures for use in the medical field.
Meet a biomedical engineer!
- Meet Shruti Pai and find out about her work in a prosthetics lab.
- Tammy Reid uses her skills as a biomedical engineer to develop things like chairs.
- Learn about Abby Vogel’s work on cancer.
Take a look at THIS!
- Jessica Miller helps save lives by engineering devices for human hearts. Check out Jessica Miller here.
Try it yourself!
- Check out this timeline of technology developments in health.
How do I do this?
- How do you even begin to prepare to be a biomedical engineer? Find out here!