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SUMMARY:Girls and Science Summer Camp (GAS)
DESCRIPTION:Session Information    Dates\n Session 1\: July 6 - 10\, 2009 (current 7th graders) -  FULL\nSession 2\: July 13 - 17\, 2009 (current 8th  graders) - FULL\n  Times\n 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily  Cost\n $150 for the 5-day session Please see How to Apply [/apply.php] for this year's  application and for more information.\nThe Girls and Science (GAS) Camp was established at Vanderbilt University in  the summer of 1999 by Dr. Virginia Shepherd and Vicki Metzgar in partnership  with the Vanderbilt University Medical School and Peabody College of Education  in response to the gender differences in science achievement found in high  school. During the summers of 1999 and 2000\, the camp was held for two weeks\,  one for rising 8th graders and one for rising 9th graders. In response to  overwhelmingly high numbers of girls on the waiting list\, the camp was expanded  in the summer of 2001 to include two weeks for each grade. The goals of the GAS Camp are to engage girls in  science activities\, to foster confidence in science achievement\, and to  encourage girls' enrollment in high school science courses.\n The camp is held in the biosciences laboratories at Vanderbilt and staffed by  middle and high school teachers. Additional camp personnel include graduate and  undergraduate science students\, high school junior counselors\, and staff from  other partnering university and community organizations.\n The camp has been funded in part by the Vanderbilt Department of  Medicine [http\://medicine.mc.vanderbilt.edu/]\; the Margaret Cuninggim Women's Center [http\://www.vanderbilt.edu/WomensCenter/]\; the Vanderbilt Center for  Science Outreach [http\://www.scienceoutreach.org/]\; private donations\; the National Institutes of Health [http\://www.nih.gov/]\; the National Science Foundation [http\://www.nsf.gov/]\; the Waksman Foundation for  Microbiology [http\://www.waksmanfoundation.org/]\; and Tennessee  Women in Medicine [http\://www.tnwm.com/].\n
URL;VALUE=URI:http://www.girlsandscience.org/
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