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Why Janie
Can't Engineer: Would your attitude toward physics
have been different if your introduction to it had involved devising
a catapult to send the head of a Barbie doll over a castle wall
during a mock medieval siege? Girls in a research project funded
by the National Science Foundation learned through trial and error
that a Barbie doll head is hard to catapult unless you make it
heavier -- for example, by inserting lead sinkers into it. They
also learned that it was easier to catapult a potato. Then they
learned about density and velocity, which were not presented simply
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schools and careers (Friday, 2/13/2004, Star-Ledger ) In a third-floor classroom in Newark's Central Ward, an unlikely assortment of students gathered for an orientation program. Some were middle-age, others barely out of high school. Most were men, and all were black or Latino. |
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The Technology Educators Association of New Jersey (TEANJ) has run a special issue of their newsletter, Interface, about gender equity and diversity in technology education. The publication is full of recent information on the state of gender equity in technology fields, as well as practical recruitment strategies for your classroom. For more information about TEANJ, visit their website at http://www.teanj.org. |
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