Boston Today – Science Club for Girls Takes STEM to the Next Generation
Covered in the latest BU Today article, the BU Graduate Women in Science and Engineering (including IAR’s own Aurora Kesseli) met with third-grade girls to foster a love for science.
‘On this Thursday, eight-year-old Amaria Smith works next to Kesseli, an astronomy doctoral candidate, coloring multiple discs so she can see different shapes through her kaleidoscope. Amaria, a third grader at the Jackson/Mann K-8 School in Allston, has been coming to Girls Science Club for a couple of years. She’s one of the first to shout out the answers about how light bends and what happens when you shine it into a mirror.
Her favorite experiment was one that used Jell-O, she explains to a visitor. The girls built sturdy structures with toothpicks, then mimicked an earthquake. Amaria found out that triangles are the best shape.’
Read the rest of the Article here: http://www.bu.edu/today/2017/science-club-for-girls/