The first feminine governor of Massachusetts spent her first International Women’s Day studying a bit about binary code with younger women on the Curley Ok-8 School on Wednesday afternoon.
“This is the best part of my week,” mentioned Gov. Maura Healey. “This is Women’s History Month. Today is International Women’s Day, and we wanted to make a point of spending time with young girls.”
The governor and Lt. Gov. Kim Driscoll, together with a handful of native officers, piled right into a brightly embellished classroom on the college with a gaggle of third by fifth grade women taking part in a Strong Women Strong Girls mentorship program Wednesday afternoon to mark the vacation and encourage some feminine empowerment.
The politicians obtained to hitch in on a session studying in regards to the Women Who Code founder — a non-profit serving to women advance in nonetheless male-dominated expertise fields — and visualizing binary code with beads.
Meanwhile, the ladies obtained to talk with state leaders about all the pieces from their curiosity in Roblox and the origins of volleyball (a sport invented in Massachusetts, Driscoll identified) to the historical past of girls’s voting rights and the feminine leaders’ historic elections.
“We’ve never seen two women be the top two positions in any state, in fact, in the country,” Healey instructed the ladies. “This is the first time it’s ever happened. We want you to know you can be a governor; you could be lieutenant governor; you could be a city councilor; you can be anything you want to be. Just because somebody is in that job who doesn’t look like you doesn’t mean it’s not for you.”
The politicians gave the ladies numerous recommendation on standing up for one another, bravery and being true to themselves and requested any of the youngsters’ coverage recommendation or issues in return.
“The hope and the enthusiasm of these young girls is part of why we do our work,” Healey mentioned.
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