Science mentoring program empowers Vancouver high school girls

Vancouver teenagers Ruini Xiong and Crystal Zheng have gone from being slightly intimated by science to empowered young women on their way to successful careers in bio-medical engineering.
The Grade 12 students at Templeton Secondary recently won a regional science fair for their work on developing a plastic substitute using material from shellfish and silk worms.
Their award-winning project was highlighted Thursday on International Women’s Day by the Open Science Network, which aims to cr