As a middle school teacher, Amy Hunter said she was surprised by the number of girls who would say they weren’t good at math and science.

Hunter, now the Big Sky branch coordinator of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Big Sky Country, has since launched a program designed to inspire young girls’ interest in STEM from a young age and encourage teenage girls’ confidence in the field.

As Hunter delved into the issue, she found a study from the University of Houston that found by the age of 6, many girls had lost interest in STEM or decided they weren’t good at math or science.