STEM Like a Girl
“San Diego’s Cabrillo National Monument draws more than 800,000 visitors a year with its sweeping views of the ocean, the old Point Loma lighthouse, and an intertidal zone that at low tide reveals a profusion of abalone, seastars, and nudibranches. And for a few weeks every summer, it attracts a rather young demographic—10-to-16-year-old girls—and becomes an especially busy place for scientific discovery”