About 60 high school girls spent the morning in class today in South Jersey.  No, it wasn’t summer school.

KYW’s David Madden reports that a special session this morning at Camden County College in Blackwood, NJ sought to prepare the teenage girls for the future, and the importance of math and science in the equation of life.

This is the second year for the “Women in Math and Chemistry Career Day.”

Chemistry professor Susan Choi is one of the organizers, and says both fields will be important for women later in life in the professional world, although they may not realize it now:

“It’s one of those areas you have to start early. You have to start taking the math courses early, the science courses early, if you want to have a career in it.”

How do you sell the kids? Among other things, show them the money — the salaries they can earn.

A lawyer spoke of the importance that math and science plays in her field.

Grace Hawkins, about to enter her junior year at Brimm Medical Arts High School in Camden, got the message:

“When I graduate high school I want to become a pediatrician. So I guess math in a career is good.”

(Photo by KYW’s David Madden)