{"id":277,"date":"2007-09-07T07:24:59","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T11:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=277"},"modified":"2008-08-05T19:27:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T23:27:39","slug":"giving-girls-a-little-bit-of-encouragement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"Giving girls a little bit of encouragement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prompted in part by statistics showing how girls tend to lose interest in science and math, folks in the Treasure Coast are in the beginning stages of bringing a Sally Ride Science Camp for middle school girls into their area<\/a>. It’s exciting to see so many people and organizations coming together to address a problem\u00c2\u00a0that could be easily ignored otherwise.<\/p>\n

“The concept is really cool. I think it’s something that’s going to be unique to Florida,” said Kathryn Hensley, a St. Lucie County School Board member. “We know that girls sometimes need a little bit of encouragement in middle school to go into math and science.”<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

A study done in 2000 by the National Center for Education Statistics shows the number of girls and boys who like math and science in the fourth grade is about the same. But by eighth grade, twice as many boys as girls show an interest in these subjects.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More information on Sally Ride Science Camp<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prompted in part by statistics showing how girls tend to lose interest in science and math, folks in the Treasure Coast are in the beginning stages of bringing a Sally Ride Science Camp for middle school girls into their area. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-4t","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":222,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=222","url_meta":{"origin":277,"position":0},"title":"Girls summer camp features science and math","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"June 8, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is hosting their first summer camp for girls focusing on math and science. 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