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- Volume 28
- Issue 3
- Publication Date: Summer 2005
Needed: Teachers to Encourage Girls in Math, Science, and Technology
Sally M. Reis and Carol Graham
“Girls they wanna have fu-un, oh, girls just wanna have fun . . .”
The words of Cyndi Lauper energize the atmosphere as Frisbees begin to fly and a group of fifth-grade girls from Crabapple Crossing Elementary School file into the TAG resource room to face a fun-loving group of enthusiastic young scientists from Milton High School of Fulton County Schools in Georgia. One fifth grader leaps into the air to capture the first Frisbee, which displays the statement “Physics is fun!” Another girl repeats the message on the next Frisbee to her friend, “Technology is fun!” With a confluence of energy and expectation, the mayhem and madness yields a serious message: Young gifted women from Milton High School believe that women of the 21st century must not be overlooked in fields in which women continue to be invisible, and their proposal for correcting this problem is through a networking of gifted girls and mentorship. The networking began in this classroom and extended beyond tomorrow into the network of the World Wide Web.
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