Seventeen-year-old Reema Patadia wants to be a biomedical engineer, but she鈥檚 always had a passion for the environment. One day at school, she heard her Design and Innovation teacher talking with a man about an idea that seemed like it could bridge those two interests.
鈥淎nd I went up to them and said 鈥楬ey, what are you guys talking about? It sounded really interesting,鈥欌
The man, Martin Ogle, was saying that, typically, students who want an “environmental career鈥 are steered toward just a limited range of fields 鈥 environmental scientist, forester, or park ranger. But that鈥檚 just a small slice of the economy.
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