Keeping it real with EUREKA! A Smart STEM-education partnership between UMass and Holyoke Girls Inc.

Keeping it real with EUREKA! A Smart STEM-education partnership between UMass and Holyoke Girls Inc.
Christine Hatch, EUREKA! Program and Geosciences Department
Christine Hatch EUREKA
Date and time: Tue, Apr 24, 2018 - 4:00pm
Location: HAS 138
Category: Special Events
Abstract:

Have you found yourself wondering how to channel your science into meaningful broader impacts that really make a difference?  Are you curious about the dynamic group of 8th - 12th grade girls in bright red t-shirts who occupy UMass every July?  Do you know a colleague, or are you one of the CNS faculty who have been teaching STEM workshops in this exciting outreach program for middle and high school girls from Girls Inc. Holyoke?

The UMass-Holyoke Girls Inc. EUREKA! program is entering its sixth year on campus and is only one of 20 such programs connected to just under a hundred girls in. programs around the country.  This presentation will describe the program, highlight how this program makes a real and lasting difference in the lives of the scholars who join, discuss its importance for underrepresented groups at a key life stage, translate that knowledge into quantifiable broader impacts, and of course, show you just how much fun it is.

 For more information, visit: https://www.cns.umass.edu/outreach/eureka-umass-amherst  Or email: eureka@umass.edu