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SCFG expands partnerships with local community
Science Club for Girls (SCFG) has expanded its
partnerships by joining forces with local community
centers and summer camps to enhance the academic
enrichment of children in science. These partnerships
allowed over 90 children to receive free, fun hands-
on summer science enrichment programs. Ten young
women, all high school Junior Assistants [JA], were
trained in engaging kids in science exploration. They
spent mornings testing and improving science
activities, and then spent afternoons implementing
the activities at seven different sites throughout
Cambridge. The Boys and Girls Club and The Fletcher
Maynard Academy (FMA) Extended Day are two of
the seven sites benefiting from this exciting summer
experience full of science exploration and intrigue.
Read more about these partnerships....
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Thanks to our Summer 2005 Sponsors:
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Greetings!
Since our expansion to a year-long program, our
summer project has evolved into a huge success!
This summer, we partnered with 7 community centers
and summer camps throughout Cambridge, offering
free, fun hands-on science activities to over 90
students! We also collaborated with Boston
Children's Museum and local mathemetician, Dr.
Kenneth Fan, to create the world's largest origami
geodesic sphere, which is still on display at the
Museum! Junior Assistants also taught over 200
Museum visitors origami!
Read on to find out what our Junior Assistants had to
say about our Summer 2005 projects!
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| Lessons Learned through Origami |
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Working for Science Club for Girls has been a great
experience. However, with these great experiences
also came challenges. The biggest challenge we had
to overcome and accomplish was the construction of
a sphere, but not just any sphere. It was a sphere
made of different geometric origami shapes which we
had to fold. By constructing this sphere, we would
also set the record for the world’s largest origami
geodesic sphere. It was a great amount of pressure
and work, but with the help and guidance of the
designer of the sphere, Kenneth Fan, Ph.D in
Mathematics, we were able to make it happen.
Throughout this process our interest for origami grew.
We wanted to gain more insights on origami and at
the same time get to know Dr. Fan on a different
level. So we decided to have a conversation with him.
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Read more about overcoming challenges... |
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| Beyond Expectations |
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Coming into Science Club for Girls this summer we
didn’t expect to get much more than just a
paycheck. Perhaps, we also expected to meet new
people and make new friends. But, we ended up
getting much more than that and learning more than
we would at just any summer job. The experience
opened our eyes and gave us a little taste of how a
real job will be.
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Read more about the girls' expectations |
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| Working at Draper Labs: A Junior Assistant's experience |
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My name is Jessica Holbert and I am a senior at
Cambridge Rindge and Latin school. I really love
science thanks to the Clubs, and I am planning to
major in biochemistry when I go to college. Last
summer I was given an amazing opportunity to work
at Genzyme where I was doing a research project of
the countries that each of the gardens in Genzyme
represents. And this summer I was given another
amazing opportunity: I was given the chance to
work at Draper Laboratory. It is really funny how I
got the job because it was basically just luck.
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Working at Draper Labs... |
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| Learning Leadership Skills at Genzyme |
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Ashlee Adams is a senior at Cambridge Rindge and
Latin school. Ashlee is very interested in science and
would like to become a pediatrician when she is
older. This year Ashlee was the coordinator of the
Genzyme Recycling Project where she worked with
Genzyme to schedule Science Club for Girls’ parents
to pick up the bottles from Genzyme and take them
to a recycling redemption center. All of the money
that we make from the recycling of the bottles go to
the Clubs. Because Ashlee was the coordinator of
this project, she was awarded a summer internship
working with the Genzyme.
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Ashlee at Genzyme... |
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