Go Eng Girl inspires future engineers

Monday, October 20, 2014

From the front page of the Waterloo Region Record -- October 20 

In the future, Emily Loberto feels sure that there will be flying cars, even if she has to invent them herself.

She wants there to be a cure for cancer. If there isn't one by the time she's older, she wants to help find it.

"I think I want to invent things to help the future," said Loberto, 12, of Cambridge.

"I want to make medicine and flying cars. I want to be alive when things start happening like that."

No matter what it is, you can bet Loberto will be part of the action. She's good at math and science and she likes building things, "contraptions" as she calls them.

No one has ever told her that she can't do something because she's a girl.

"I've always known that in the past, girls were told they're not worth as much as boys," Loberto said. "Why should I let what people believed in the past hold me back?"

On Saturday, Loberto and her mother, Monica Loberto, joined 170 other bright, like-minded girls and young women in Grades 7 to 10 and their relatives at the University's "Go Eng Girl" engineering workshop on campus.