What do you want to be when you grow up? The answer changes over time.
Which is why it is SO important to offer an assortment of experiences and opportunities to give young girls and boys the chance to vet out educational and career options.
Kate Kusnyer-Swango, this week's WKYC STEMbassador is a biology teacher at Kent Roosevelt High School in Kent, Ohio.
She also just so happens to be Betsy Kling's best friend of nearly 30 years.
Betsy invited Ms Swango to come in to chat about her decision to switch from a career in medicine to a career in the classroom.
"It isn't about money and position, and it IS about what makes you happiest," says Swango. "I was going to be a doctor, but I fell in love with teaching. I am still doing biology - which is the heart of medicine - and I love sharing with these kids."
During tonight's STEMbassador segment, Swango guided Betsy through the dissection of an owl pellet.
Owls aren't able to digest food like other animals, so the fur, bones and other non-digestible material is lumped together into an owl pellet, which the bird then - well - expels. Yep. It's owl vomit.
"It is totally disgusting, but pretty fascinating too," says Betsy.
"You never know what you're going to get, just like Forrest Gump," added Swango.
Owl pellets are often used in middle school science classes as an introduction to dissection. They are sterilized (heat) before students get them, but to ornithologists who study owls the pellets are a very important resource for researching habitat, diet and habits or the birds.
STEMbassadors, a weekly series that is part of WKYC's multi-year, multi-platform initiative called Girls In STEM: Growing Curiosity, features women and girls (and occasionally men) doing great things in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).
You can see more of our collection of stories and STEMbassador segments in our Girls In STEM section.