Women in Technology (WIT) and Scintel Technologies has selected Brittany Clarke, a junior at Starr’s Mill High, as this year’s recipient of the WIT Girl of the Year (GOTY) award.
WIT GIRLS, a signature program of the WIT Foundation, is focused on collaboration with the Georgia business and educational community to inspire girls in middle and high school to choose careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). The GOTY award recognizes a girl who has demonstrated a strong interest in science, technology, engineering, or math, who has been fully engaged in one or more WIT GIRLS programs in 2016, who is respectful and encouraging to others, who is credited with exemplary performance in education and school citizenship, and who has created a lasting and positive impression on a WIT GIRLS sponsoring host company and a WIT member.
Brittany says she has known since seventh grade that she wanted to be a neurosurgeon and work with biomedical technology. Her dream is to cure MS (Multiple Sclerosis) or at least contribute to the cure of it through her research and use of biomedical engineering.
“My motto is ‘don’t follow your dreams, catch them and make them a reality’ because regardless of what people say, with determination and hard work, the world is in each and every individual’s hands, and the future is theirs to mold,” Brittany says.
In addition to her involvement with WIT, Brittany also participates in Girl Scouts, FIRST Robotics, HOSA (Healthcare Occupations Students of America), chess club, book club, and Society of Women Engineers.
