Young women benefited from a network of "social cohesion and peer support," a form of social capital, which emerged from participation in a well-known high school robotics program. This factor was part of a larger grounded theory qualitative study using a foundation in career theories that explored the influences of the robotics program on young women's career decisions, with a particular interest in STEM careers. This paper explores one part of the nascent model, sharing young women's stories from which the category of social cohesion and peer support arose.