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Reflections of the Summer Program
For the past twelve years Science Club for Girls has
connected hundreds of girls to our science programs,
sparking their interest and connecting them with
female mentors. As girls reach middle school we
strive to combine science and leadership, providing
them with opportunities to find their voice and
become role models within their schools, so they not
only succeed in science, but in life.
Read more about these reflections....
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Thanks to our Summer 2006 Sponsors:
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Greetings!
For the third year, we worked with Junior
Assistants to provide hands-on science to summer
camps and community centers in Cambridge. Over the five
weeks of the program, we provided free science activities to
over
100 students! We also collaborated with Boston
Children's Museum and local mathematician, Dr.
Kenneth Fan, to create a one-of-a-kind origami quilt,
which was designed by the girls. Junior Assistants
also taught over 250 Museum visitors origami. Read
on to find out what our Junior Assistants had to say
about the summer of 2006!
In our next issue: Three Junior Assistants isolate
Green
Fluorescent Protein in a biotechnology (ad)venture in
SummerLab; Saving the Planet, again--Genzyme summer
internship.
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| My Summer |
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My name is Cassie and I am 17 years old. This
summer I worked for the Mayor’s Summer Youth
Employment Program. I signed up for the Mayor’s
program because I am trying to save money for
college and knew that getting a job would help to
jumpstart my future. I was assigned to work for
Science Club for Girls, which was exciting because I
am confident about my skills in science and enjoy the
subject matter. Having a job in the sciences is also
important to me because my goal is to become a
dental hygienist and this experience will help me
reach this goal.
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Read more about Cassie's summer... |
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| Oooh Oobleck! |
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Can something be a solid and a liquid at the same
time? Can little kids get excited over non-Newtonian
fluids? The answer to both these questions is YES!
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Learn more about oobleck... |
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| Kids in the Spotlight |
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Science Club for Girls (SCFG) introduces science to
children in different ways and from many points of
view. In SCFG, we do hands-on experiments testing
different theories and methods of science. During the
summer we interviewed kids on what they had to say
about SCFG and how it relates to their dreams for
the future.
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Find out more about the interviews... |
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| Origami Quilt-making Project |
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Fourteen girls in 8th-12th grades
worked with Dr. Ken Fan to create an origami quilt. Once
they learned how the pieces designed by Dr. Fan
could fit together, the girls also worked as a team
to fashion the overall design, based on the color and size of
the pieces. The girls spent many weeks diligently folding 346
paper
squares into triangles and hexagons that would interlock,
creating a 9 x 6 foot origami quilt that did not rely on tape or
glue.
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View pictures from this project... |
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