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Objectified: Experimenting With Ways to Encourage Girl Scientists
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:10:35
Publish Date: 2016-11-22 15:50:37
Description: When the Siemens Foundation and Discover Education began holding a competition in math, science, and technology in 1999 the goal was to increase access to higher education for young students who are gifted in STEM by offering winners scholarships of up to $100,000. That goal is still the same, but seventeen years later organizers have changed the way they encourage young girls to compete and consider careers that could lead to the cure for cancer or identify tomorrow's coolest technology. So, what does it take to involve a more diverse pool of participants...in other words...find a way to get girls to compete?
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