Makayla Washington said she just found out there are jobs working with robots.

“It was so cool to see that we can actually learn to build robots,” said Makayla, a seventh-grade student at Western Toledo Prep Academy at Hill who likes engineering. “We can go to school and get the knowledge to build them, which I really like. I never knew you could go to school to do that.”

The young lady was one of 100 female students in Grades 6 to 8 who attended the American Heart Association’s Toledo STEM Goes Red event on Tuesday at the Nitschke Hall auditorium at the University of Toledo.

Debbie Brambley, a math teacher at Western Toledo Prep, said this was the second year she has brought students to learn more about STEM jobs.

“This is a good visual program to show the girls about jobs in the scie

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