PWHS students visited Temple University for Women in Business Day

by Bailey Kassis, PWHS Class of 2025

On March 19th, a group of female students highly involved in the engineering, innovation, and business classes at Plymouth Whitemarsh High School (PW) attended Temple’s Women in Business Day which promotes female representation in the traditionally male-dominated business fields.

At Temple University’s Fox Business School, students had the opportunity to sit in on comprehensive sessions, speak with distinguished female faculty members, and collaborate with peers from several local school districts.

The university’s student-led organization hosts this annual event to equip future female leaders with the tools needed to communicate effectively, build strong networks, and excel in corporate environments after high school. Our group of Plymouth Whitemarsh students attended workshops about opportunities at Temple, finding your community, networking, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and we even had the opportunity to attend a panel-style question and answer session with faculty who discussed their experiences and being pioneers in their fields.

In one of our workshops about networking, the presenters asked who in the group of student attendees already had a profile made on Linkedin. While the responses were mixed for most schools, the majority of students from PW raised their hands, reflective of the hands-on business approach our department has encouraged since our very first Introduction to Business course. We are very fortunate to have a business department that prepares us for real-world scenarios we’re going to encounter, leaving us feeling ahead of the curve compared to our peers heading into post-secondary education.

Ms. Beth Rickard organized the Women in Business trip for students across a variety of business classes, allowing students with a wide range of business experience and interests to engage in ways that best furthered their goals.

Speaking with current Temple students was my favorite part of the experience because we were able to gain a better understanding of the classes we’ll experience as first-year students and how we can become involved on any college campus, empowering the women around us to continue to achieve goals in overwhelmingly male careers.