Violeta Garcia
STEM Activist
Playlists
All Videos (34)
- What I Do
- (Español) What I Do
- Typical Day
- Great Part
- Why A Career in STEM
- (Español) Why a Career in STEM
- Challenges
- Exciting Projects
- Skills to Develop
- (Español) Skills to Develop
- Education
- Favorites
- Helpful Teachers
- Going to College Without Citizenship
- (Español) Going to College Without Citizenship
- Testing Scale Not Accurate
- Skills From Childhood
- Did It Anyway
- Heroes
- Goals
- Staying Motivated
- Family Support
- (Español) Family Support
- Leaving El Salvador
- (Español) How We Arrived in the U.S.
- Being a New Immigrant
- (Español) After Leaving El Salvador
- (Español) First Word in English
- Mexican Proverb
- Advice
- Advice to a New Immigrant Girl
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Your Job May Not Exist Yet
- Importance of Financial Literacy
Bio
Watch Violeta Garcia, Ph.D., STEM Activist and founder of STEM Learning By Design, share how her family fled El Salvador to America when she was a young child and how she started her life in America without knowing any English. She is a big believer in STEM careers because they pay well and will help to solve some of the world's biggest problems of the future. She gets inspiration from a famous Mexican proverb, "they tried to bury us but they didn’t know we were seeds.”
Related Role Models
Skills You Need to Succeed
Still Undecided? Explore by Interest >