QUESTIONS
Some questions to get the conversation started!
WORKING IN STEM AS A WOMAN:
What is one piece of advice that you wish you knew in highschool as a girl interested in STEM?
What are some of the challenges you have faced as a woman in STEM? How have you worked to overcome them?
Has anyone ever discouraged you from pursuing a career in STEM? How did you deal with this?
Were there ever times when you felt challenges in your field such as imposter syndrome and how did you work through them?
YOUR CAREER:
What does a day in your job look like?
What's the most challenging part of your job?
Is your job more independent or collaborative?
What is your favorite part of your job?
What is the most interesting project you've worked on?
OVERCOMING CHALLENGES:
What is the biggest challenge or failure you’ve faced in your career, and how did you solve it?
What lessons have you learned from overcoming failure?
EDUCATION:
How did you choose your major?
Did you change your major?
When you entered college, did you know what you want to study?
How did you decide what field you wanted to go into, and how did you narrow your focus?
What advice do you have for finding opportunities that will help us discover what field of STEM we are interested in?
MENTORS & ADVICE:
How have mentor figures guided you in your career or life?
What is the best advice you've ever received?
LAB WORK:
How did you figure out you were interested in lab work?
How can highschool students best get experience in the lab?
How did you decide the field of research you decided to go into?
What’s your favorite part of working in a lab?