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This paper reports on an effort to address the issue of inequality in girls' and women's access to science, engineering and technology (SET) education and careers through raising awareness on SET among secondary school girls in South Africa. Girls participated in hands-on high-tech rapid prototyping environment of a fabrication laboratory that was aimed at stimulating their interest in SET as part of a Fab Kids initiative. The Fab Kids intervention is about applying the design process to solve a technology challenge. This research is a qualitative assessment through a case study of the impact of this intervention on South African school girls' interest in SET. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]