Black Girls serving as their own Role Models in STEM - Scientific American Blog Network
Black Girls serving as their own Role Models in STEM
This world sends many different messages. Today a rather poignant message was sent to America, it was directed at Americans who care about justice in particular.
By DNLee on November 25, 2014
In a world that tells black children and black girls, especially that they are less than I felt like sharing some good news - some good STEM news.
The RoboDoves - an all-girls Robotics team at a Baltimore High School demonstrate they are THE team to beat at Robotics compeititions.
"Everyone is expecting us to come. People know who we are," said Dania Allgood, 17, a Western High School senior who has been a RoboDove since her freshman year. RoboDoves' head coach and Western High School technology and AP art teacher Heather Romney sums it up more pithily: "Girls like to compete just as much as boys." ~
Complex social dynamics among African-Americans results in different ways parents react to their sons and daughters.
"What’s happening with black girls is that their parents are seeing them as strong and efficacious and capable, so [they’re] pushing them into whatever it is they want to do and find interesting," Rowley said.
African girls’ create a pee-powered generator
A group of 14-year-old school girls show off a urine-powered generator at an innovation fair in Lagos, Nigeria. The invention still has some kinks to work out, but the idea of taking a waste product, that is readily available and abundant and using it to create energy is genius.
What other good news do you have to share? I love hearing about broadening participation opportunities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), so drop those links.
You Should Know: Dr. Umberto Cannella and Dr. Cinnamon blog
By DNLee on November 23, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: This Stops Today
By DNLee on December 3, 2014
Black Girls serving as their own Role Models in STEM - Scientific American Blog Network
Black Girls serving as their own Role Models in STEM
This world sends many different messages. Today a rather poignant message was sent to America, it was directed at Americans who care about justice in particular.
By DNLee on November 25, 2014
In a world that tells black children and black girls, especially that they are less than I felt like sharing some good news - some good STEM news.
The RoboDoves - an all-girls Robotics team at a Baltimore High School demonstrate they are THE team to beat at Robotics compeititions.
"Everyone is expecting us to come. People know who we are," said Dania Allgood, 17, a Western High School senior who has been a RoboDove since her freshman year. RoboDoves' head coach and Western High School technology and AP art teacher Heather Romney sums it up more pithily: "Girls like to compete just as much as boys." ~
Complex social dynamics a
mong African-Americans results in different ways parents react to their sons and daughters.
"What’s happening with black girls is that their parents are seeing them as strong and efficacious and capable, so [they’re] pushing them into whatever it is they want to do and find interesting," Rowley said.
African girls’ create a pee-powered generator
A group of 14-year-old school girls show off a urine-powered generator at an innovation fair in Lagos, Nigeria. The invention still has some kinks to work out, but the idea of taking a waste product, that is readily available and abundant and using it to create energy is genius.
What other good news do you have to share? I love hearing about broadening participation opportunities in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics), so drop those links.
You Should Know: Dr. Umberto Cannella and Dr. Cinnamon blog
By DNLee on November 23, 2014
Wordless Wednesday: This Stops Today
By DNLee on December 3, 2014