Comment by Tichy

Here is the story of a girl who was raised to become a chess grandmaster by her dad: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judit_Polg%C3%A1r

Just saying - girls play chess, too.

There are infinite possibilities for doing things in the world. If not building things, what about the kid who held a speech in front of the UN at age eleven and apparently moved lots of people to tears (don't remember - was it on HN recently?).

You could do some biology stuff, like EO Wilson who went on the trail of fire ants. Some biological drama is probably playing out right now in your backyard.

What I mean is: whatever interests your daughter, there is probably something useful/fun to do.