Volunteer Connections by Girl Scouts of Nassau County

GSNC-NSLIJ Career Exploration Camp By Elizabeth Sam Girl Scouts of Nassau County has embarked on various initiatives to empower young women to enter STEM fields. This year, GSNC joined forces with North Shore-LIJ Health System to kick-start the first ever GSNC-NSLIJ Career Exploration Camp for high school girls. A program for registered Girl Scouts, it looked to grant girls the opportunity to explore the variety of clinical and nonclinical professional opportunities available within the ever-growing field of healthcare. In addition, it also looked to expose girls to the variety of nonclinical STEM related fields within healthcare and related research. A group of nineteen girls, all at different points in their high school career, were given the opportunity to spend a week at NSLIJ’s various facilities. These girls had the opportunity to participate in lectures, tour the organization’s corporate university, become familiarized with the work and opportunities of a...