Alabama Power Chemist Seeks To Empower Girls To Pursue Fields In Science, Engineering

By Eduardo Medina

Jodi Webb is a self-proclaimed “science nerd.” She excelled in the subject until her starting senior year at B.B. Comer High School.

As the first chemistry test was handed back, she could sense her straight-A run coming to an end.

There, on her chemistry test, was the grade she never thought she’d see: B.Though many students would celebrate a B, for Webb the grade felt like failure, as big a failure as trying to pronounce the element Ytterbium or forgetting the atomic number of hydrogen. Nonetheless, she rebounded from the disappointment, all thanks to her high school teacher.

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