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Kids Can Save the World: Dr. Stephen Wood

May 17, 2025 by Katianne Williams

Dr. Stephen Wood, program chair of the ocean engineering program at the Florida Institute of Technology (FIT) is having so much fun that he can’t imagine retiring, but he does have a serious question: Where are the women engineers? To interest more young women in engineering, he has authored a fiction series for young readers. Throughout the Save the World Kids series, after a … [Read more...] about Kids Can Save the World: Dr. Stephen Wood

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