FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel has released a new episode of her podcast Broadband Conversations, this time in honor of Hispanic Heritage Month and featuring Sylvia Acevedo, the CEO Of the Girl Scouts of the USA. She is also a longtime advocate for STEM education, an engineer, and author of Path to the Stars: My Journey from Girl Scout to Rocket Scientist.
“It was an honor to speak to Sylvia and hear about her work with the Girl Scouts to build a better future for every girl,” said Rosenworcel. On this episode, listeners will hear about how it was Sylvia’s own Girl Scout troop leader who noticed her early interest in space and encouraged her to earn a science badge by building a model rocket. That experience led Sylvia down a path to eventually becoming a rocket scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Listeners will also hear how, under Sylvia’s leadership, girls in troops are encouraged to take on science, technology, math, and engineering projects and pursue badges like cybersecurity. In fact, as a result of her efforts, during the past six months over 84,000 Girls Scouts have earned badges in cybersecurity.”
