MIT scientists created a dance party kit to get girls interested in STEM

According to a U.S. News & World report in 2015, women were still highly underrepresented in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields. Women made up only 39 percent of chemists and material scientists, 28 percent of environmental scientists and geoscientists, 16 percent of chemical engineers, and a staggeringly low 12 percent of civil engineers. 

MIT scientists Maria Yang and Tony Hu founded Brainy Yak Labs to help boost those numbers by encouraging more young girls that math, science, engineering can be fun and creative. Their first product is a dance party toy called Jubilite. Read more...