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Thursday Wrap Up After playing a game of charades to strengthen their understanding of the vocabulary, the girls spent the majority of the day working on their projects and preparing them for Saturday's presentation. They also learned how to create a website for their projects using HTML and how to prepare models of their data for the final presentation. |
Wednesday Wrap Up Wednesday the girls spent the day at OSC working on their group projects and beginning their analysis of their watersheds using PowerPoint and a modeling suite. Later in the evening there was a career night event back on campus, where the girls were able to meet undergraduate and graduate student women in various science, engineering and technology-based fields. |
The girls enjoyed a day of fun in the sun as they explored the ecosystem of Battelle Darby Creek. Students were issued the task of performing various tests on the creek's water quality to determine the overall health of the stream. Also, students performed the infamous 'Darby Shuffle', essentially a shuffle to disturb the rocks and riverbed to move the creatures out from hiding so that they can be captured and analyzed for healthiness and variety of species. Finally, there was a demonstration by the EPA of electro-fishing, a technique which stuns the fish momentarily and causes them to swim towards the source of the electricity. This allows for easy capture and analysis before the fish are returned back to the stream. |
Today the girls were introduced to all the science that they will need to know for the week. They learned all about rivers and the effects that humans have on our water supply. They learned how to tell a clean river from a polluted river and how to use chemical and biological tests to determine water quality. The girls had a chance to practice the chemical tests that they will be using tomorrow at Darby Creek. Once the hard part was over it was time to relax and enjoy an evening of badminton and volleyball at the OSU RPAC. |
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