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Twitter chat as it happened: 'How can we get girls into STEM?'
By Phoebe Parke, for CNN
updated 8:02 AM EDT, Fri October 10, 2014 |
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
  • Leading Women hosts Twitter Chat celebrating girls in science
  • Five questions on biggest inspirations, words of wisdom, secrets to success
  • Guests include race car drivers, software developers, coders
  • Huge response from STEM organizations and schoolgirls across the globe

Editor's note: In celebration of International Day of the Girl (October 11) and Ada Lovelace Day (October 14), Leading Women is devoting the month of October to women and girls in STEM: science, technology, engineering and math.

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