Poster #401 STEM Poster Motivates Girls to Care About Science, Part of Series

Every year, at hotels all over the world, scientists from every field in science flock to these giant academic conferences.  They're like WOODSTOCK for geeks in that field.  Scientists go to these conferences to learn about the new research going on in their field,   and to share the work they're  doing with everybody else. And to drink and hang out with friends from other  universities who they don't get to see very often. So it's like a big, social knowledge  update for the whole field. And at most all of these conferences  there's something called a poster session. And poster sessions are where researchers share   findings that didn't fit into bigger  sessions or bigger presentations. Scientists take some new research  finding some new truth about the world... ...and they try to explain  it on this giant poster. These poster sessions are one of the main ways  that scientists share kn