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What Western Washington University is doing to attract new students

Western Washington University is working to ignite local kids鈥 interest in STEM careers.

鈥淥ur state lags behind in the number of kids with bachelor degrees, in the stem fields, and just generally in higher education.鈥 Paul Cocke, Director of Communications at  草榴社区 explained.

草榴社区 is working to bring students in Whatcom County above those statistics, using their own Environmental Sciences lobby as a sort of museum to attract students of all ages to learn on their turf.

鈥淲e have a great place to study geology with active volcanism, we have glaciers here, lots of things.鈥