Birmingham-area Girls Get Energized About Engineering At Alabama Power Conference

By Carla Davis

Cameron Vines learned Saturday that there’s more to her mom’s job than she realized.

The sixth-grader from Hewitt-Trussville Middle School took part in the annual iCan Girls in Engineering Conference April 14, along with her mom, Brandi Vines, Alabama Power Distribution Innovation project manager, who has worked in the field of engineering since 2003.

“Cameron told me she thought the conference was going to be full of boring speakers,” said Brandi, “but instead, it was a lot of fun, hands-on activities. I’m glad she had the opportunity to see what it means to be an engineer from someone other than me.”During the annual daylong conference, more than 100 girls from 50 middle schools in the Greater Birmingham area and their parents got the chance to interact with female engineering professionals from Alabama Power and Southern Company, and learned that the doors are wide open for young women interested in pursuing technical careers. The students and their parents participated in hands-on projects that allowed them to experience engineering in action.

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