TechGYRLS told: 'Dream big, and you'll get there'
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By Sandra Guy
Dorothy Johnson, 12, a sixth-grader at Francis W. Parker Community Academy, wants to be a doctor. Kendron Stoklosa, 11, a fifth-grader at Robert A. Black Magnet School, has her eye on forensic science. And Symphony Foster, an 11-year-old at McDade Classical School, is determined to be a fashion designer.
The 9- to 14-year-old girls -- members of TechGYRLS, a 14-week after-school program sponsored by YWCA Metropolitan Chicago -- recently joined their TechGYRLS peers for an afternoon at Microsoft's new high-tech Midwest offices in the Aon Center, where the girls created a make-believe technology product and heard female executives applaud their initiative.
