Seventeen-year-old Reema Patadia wants to be a biomedical engineer, but she’s always had a passion for the environment. One day at school, she heard her Design and Innovation teacher talking with a man about an idea that seemed like it could bridge those two interests.
“And I went up to them and said ‘Hey, what are you guys talking about? It sounded really interesting,’”
The man, Martin Ogle, was saying that, typically, students who want an “environmental career” are steered toward just a limited range of fields — environmental scientist, forester, or park ranger. But that’s just a small slice of the economy.
