One of my friends and colleagues, Celeste Baine, recently posted an insightful and thought provoking blog about who can or can not “engineer.”  She graciously agreed to letting me share her post with you.  You can read more here at the Engineering Education Service Center.  Enjoy!

While I wrote my book for young children, ages 4-10, I am delighted with the warm reception my book is receiving from other audiences.

Many young women in high school are attracted to my book.  A high school counselor at an all-girl high school in Cincinnati, Ohio, added ABC’s to his career guidance booklist and we are all surprised by how many times the girls request to read and re-read ABC’s.

Adults, especially ones not related to the engineering field, as well have let me know how much they enjoy the book.  I’ve had a number of octogenarians comment that they learned something new from the book.  “I didn’t know that!” is a proclamation I hear often from adults!  And I love that!  I spent many research hours on my book and learned some very interesting things along the way.  I really wanted to include some of those interesting bits in my book and am so happy other adults are finding them interesting too!

Share with me – what surprising bit did you learn from my book?