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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Sarah Lansdown

Young women break down engineering myths

Year 10 student Georgia Ween and year 9 student Andi Gao are participating in the YoWIE program this week. Picture by Keegan Carroll

The smell of engine oil was in the air at a UNSW Canberra workshop as a group of teenage girls tinkered with lawn mower engines.

Their task was to take the engine apart, carefully screwing, twisting and tapping at each piece, and then put it all back together.

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