EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — Marathon El Paso Refinery wants to get girls excited about careers in engineering and the sciences.
Thursday, Nov. 6, the Women’s Employee Network at the refinery in South-Central El Paso held their fourth annual Girls STEM Conference.
Forty juniors and seniors from Ysleta, El Paso, Socorro and Clint school districts, along with private schools, participated in the daylong event.
“Oftentimes, females aren’t aware of what job opportunities there are out there,” said Lisa Bielamowicz, operations director at the Marathon Refinery. “”Me personally, my parents weren’t sure when I decided I wanted to become a chemical engineer and what that really meant…