{"id":27748,"date":"2012-08-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ashleydev.com\/2012\/08\/02\/connecting-science-to-girls-everyday-life\/"},"modified":"2020-08-27T11:43:08","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T15:43:08","slug":"connecting-science-to-girls-everyday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cna.ca\/fr\/2012\/08\/02\/connecting-science-to-girls-everyday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting Science to Girls\u2019 Everyday&nbsp;Life!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Cheryll Cottrill<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Executive Director<\/em><br \/>\n<em>WiN-Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Extracting chocolate chips from cookies to show the principles of mining and making a model of the eye using a balloon, markers and an egg carton were just a couple of activities undertaken at two separate week-long GIRLS (Girls in Real Life Science) Day Camps in Tiverton, Ontario in July.<\/p>\n<p>Hands-on experiments, using materials that can be found around any household, were enjoyed by a group of 25 girls aged 8-13 at each of the camps. The camps facilitated by <a title=\"WiN Canada\" href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.wincanada.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Women in Nuclear (WiN)-Canada<\/a>&#8216;s Bruce chapter and subsidized by Bruce Power invited the expertise of Camp GEMS (Girls Engineering Math Science) (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gemscamp.org\/\">http:\/\/www.gemscamp.org<\/a>) to deliver the program for the camp.<\/p>\n<p>WiN&#8217;s partnership with Camp GEMS is a perfect fit as both organizations share the same philosophy around getting girls excited in science, math and engineering.\u00a0 The GIRLS Science Camp provides a fun, hands-on experience, using science, math and engineering principles, with a female mentor who has been successful in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) careers and connects science to everyday life. All this is done to awaken a life-long passion for science and ignite scientific curiosity so campers will ask intelligent questions around issues like climate change and energy options and hopefully go on to study these STEM subjects post-secondary. In Canada, only an estimated 21% of students enrolled in applied science and engineering are women.<\/p>\n<p>Mentors from <a title=\"Bruce Power\" href=\"http:\/\/www.brucepower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bruce Power<\/a>, <a title=\"Ontario Power Generation\" href=\"http:\/\/opg.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ontario Power Generation<\/a> and <a title=\"Ian Martin Limited\" href=\"http:\/\/ianmartin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ian Martin Limited<\/a> helped out each day providing the girls with female role models who are successful in science and technology.<\/p>\n<p>One of the campers summed it up best, \u201cGEMS helped me understand science in a very fun way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Additional information and pictures from the camp may be found on the WiN-Canada website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wincanada.org\/\">www.wincanada.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1828\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gems-amber-maddy-jacqueline-and-chloe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1828\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1828\" title=\"gems amber, maddy, jacqueline and chloe\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/talknuclear.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/gems-amber-maddy-jacqueline-and-chloe.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"277\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Amber Splettstoesser (L), 11, Maddy Edey, 10, Jacqueline Shaw, 11, and Chloe Wheeler, 12, all of Kincardine, proudly stand with the poster they made at the GEMS Camp held this week at the Whitney Crawford Community Centre, Tiverton<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cheryll Cottrill Executive Director WiN-Canada Extracting chocolate chips from cookies to show the principles of mining and making a model of the eye using a balloon, markers and an egg carton were just a couple of activities undertaken at two separate week-long GIRLS (Girls in Real Life Science) Day Camps in Tiverton, Ontario in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[537],"tags":[],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-27748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talknuclear"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Connecting Science to Girls\u2019 Everyday Life! 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