{"id":11267,"date":"2012-06-23T11:48:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T16:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=11267"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:47:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T18:47:36","slug":"art2stem-nudging-girls-toward-science-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2012\/06\/23\/art2stem-nudging-girls-toward-science-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Art2STEM: Nudging Girls toward Science, Math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ILM6Hhv3OxQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is a theory on how to\u00a0motivate more girls to be interested in science and math: connect those subjects to art and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the goal of an all-girls program in Nashville called <a href=\"http:\/\/art2stem.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Art2STEM<\/a>. It\u2019s a year-round program, but this summer, 50 girls spent a week mixing art with science\u2014painting and making pretty objects while also inventing designing concepts to solve some of the world\u2019s greatest challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe two places we\u2019re dealing with are Sudan and Somalia,\u201d explains Carlotta, an 8<sup>th<\/sup> grade participant in Art2STEM. \u201cSudan is kind of a country that\u2019s poor and their water is contaminated, and we thought about making a solar-powered water purifier. And since solar power uses heat, we thought about changing it using the heat to make it cool&#8211;\u00a0 so the water would be cold and purified.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such big ideas are typical at this camp.\u00a0 The girls work in groups, focusing on various countries and their challenges or unique characteristics. After doing research, each group plans and designs an invention or concept for its country.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Africa, another group focuses on South America. Bayleigh, the group spokesperson, says their idea is to capitalize on tourists\u2019 interest in the many landmarks that are located high atop steep mountains by using ziplines\u2014with a twist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe could have something like a hologram guide to tell them something about it\u2026 and have like traditional foods and patterns on the seats, music and headphones,\u201d says Bayleigh. \u201cAnd maybe not just be a straight shot so they can drag it out as they\u2019re going up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For this week, it doesn\u2019t matter how extreme the ideas are. The point is to get these middle school girls focused on STEM\u2014and not the kind you find on a flower; STEM as in science, engineering, technology, and math. Those subjects can be daunting to any student. But\u00a0 girls also can be influenced by myths and stereotypes, according to camp coaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anybody has told them that they couldn\u2019t do these things; it\u2019s just\u00a0 a matter of what they\u2019re used to seeing, so called women\u2019s roles or women\u2019s jobs,\u201d says Deborah Smith,\u00a0 who has a Ph.D. in math.<\/p>\n<p>Smith teaches middle school math. But as a coach for Art2STEM, she&#8217;s also a role model.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cAs a female who is a math major, that wasn\u2019t something that girls did. That was a guy\u2019s thing,\u201d says Smith. \u201c But I try to encourage my girls.\u00a0 Girls are actually smarter than boys in math!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smith laughs, but says there\u2019s truth to her statement.\u00a0 She believes girls are just as smart or smarter at math than boys, but boys receive more encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Teachers] often call on the boys more so than the girls in math class. So the girls don\u2019t get to show that side of themselves.\u00a0 And then in middle school, it might not be cool to be\u00a0that smart girl in math class,\u201d says Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Destroying such perceptions is important to Art2STEM sponsors: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alignmentnashville.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alignment Nashville <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adventuresci.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adventure Science Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHistorically we know that girls by 5<sup>th<\/sup> grade have not been encouraged to pursue science and math,\u201d says Susan Duvenhage, president of Adventure Science Center. \u201cIt may be from the home\u2014parents seeing the son and the daughter and this perception that the son is going to do well in science and math and the daughter will not.\u00a0 So we are trying to address that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duvenhage says surveys of girls before and after they participate in Art2STEM show a 30-percent increase in interest in STEM. The girls at the camp seem to affirm that finding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI now want to be a chemical engineer because of Art2STEM\u2026 because of what it showed me,\u201d says Bayleigh. \u201cIt\u2019s teaching me how I can look and invent things, and innovate things. And so, If I do that more, we could all find something and make it better than it already is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0And programs like this are even causing some to re-think the meaning of STEM, according to\u00a0 Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s called STEAM, instead of STEM&#8211; science, technology, engineering, <em>art<\/em>, and math because art is very much a part of each.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a theory on how to\u00a0motivate more girls to be interested in science and math: connect those subjects to art and creativity. 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