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"Girls of Steel: Fostering the Feminist Future of Robotics" (Ms. Magazine)

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In a noisy robotics workshop where girls in goggles belted Hamilton numbers and screwed metal pieces together with specialized tools, Langley Turcsanyi constructs a circuit board on the prototype for a robot that will be finished by her electrical crew for their next competition season this spring.

The 18-year-old is a proud member of the Girls of Steel—an all-female robotics team at Carnegie Mellon University. “I was always interested in technology,” Turcsanyi told Ms., “but I never really saw myself doing this.”

Continue reading this story by Isabel Thompson on msmagazine.com. "The Future is Ms." is an ongoing series of news reports by young feminists for Ms. Magazine.

Cover photo: https://girlsofsteelrobotics.com

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