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Speaker 1: The potential next generation of builders and project managers are

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Speaker 1: hard at work here at the Rafael Hernandez School in Roxbury.

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Speaker 2: Students are taking part in.

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Speaker 1: A program for STEM Week with the Girl Scouts of

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Speaker 1: Eastern Massachusetts, where they learned about what it takes to

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Speaker 1: be part of a construction project. In this case, they're

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Speaker 1: building a new playground out of plastic tubes, tape, and more.

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Speaker 1: Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll is here to beat with kids.

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Speaker 3: Students who are here are excited about building a playground,

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Speaker 3: understanding a budget, doing the measurements, working as a team.

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Speaker 3: I think we've really seen these students working at different tables.

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Speaker 3: You make the list, I'll go get the supplies. All

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Speaker 3: of those are really important things they're going to need

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Speaker 3: their whole life.

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Speaker 1: Betsy kul Can put on the event for the Girl Scouts,

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Speaker 1: and she says introducing kids to STEM at a young

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Speaker 1: age can open doors for.

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Speaker 2: Them down the line.

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Speaker 4: Understanding that there are ways that you can be creative

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Speaker 4: and be successful and have fun, spark interest. Doing these

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Speaker 4: some things makes it so much easier for them to

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Speaker 4: choose these pathways going forward.

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Speaker 2: From Roxbury. Kyle bra WBZ Boston's news radio,