Katie Shreve didn’t take seriously her friend’s suggestion to check out Carnegie Mellon University’s Girls of Steel Robotics Team.

aI brushed her off,a said Shreve, 16, a senior at Plum High School.

Shreve said her mother urged her to attend a robotics-team open house a couple of years ago.

Shreve was surprised at what she found with the team that started in 2011 and has a dual mission of building robots for competition and supporting women and children’s involvement in science, math engineering and technology, or STEM, disciplines, according to the team’s website.

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