Montclair March Mathness - Empower Girls Through Math
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It's a celebration of Math in Montclair! Montclair March Mathness was first celebrated in March of 2012 with fun, math-centric events for elementary, middle school and high school girls and boys, their parents and educators. This year we are bringing back many of the same exciting events and introducing new ones including:
An OPENING NIGHT screening of "Wonder Women - The Untold Story of American
03/15/2013
Girls watch in awe as Shannon Gibson shows them how to extract DNA from strawberries. SCIENCE ROCKS was a blast!
03/05/2013
at Montclair State University with Dr. Esmilda Abreu
In "The Dip" Seth Godin defines the "Dip" as the long stretch between beginner's luck and real accomplishment. He writes, "If you took organic chemistry in college, you've experienced the dip. Academia doesn't want unmotivated people to attend medical school, so they set up a screen. Organic chemistry is the killer class, the screen that separates the doctors from the others."
74% of teen girls are interested in STEM careers, but only 25% wind of in these careers. The dip is worse for girls. Montclair March Mathness: Helping our girls get beyond the dip!
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