Eureka! STEM Girls Inc. Summer Program
The program, titled “Eureka,” is funded by Girls Inc. The young women involved all will be eighth-grade students this fall and all have been involved with Girls Inc., previously. It runs during June.
“Eureka takes a ‘whole-girl’ approach,” said Carol Mitchel, a UNO faculty member in the College of Education and one of the program’s directors and co-principal investigators. Angie Hodge, a UNO Math Department faculty member from the College of Arts and Sciences, also serves as director and co-principal investigator. “We’re very excited about the STEM focus, but Eureka also stresses physical, cognitive and psychological and social development.”
The Eureka program (the full name is Eureka Teen Achievement program) was founded at Brooklyn College in 1987. The program, designed to help teen girls develop leadership and career skills, was targeted to girls of color living in the inner city, many of whom were economically disadvantaged.
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