Four girls from Early Middle School participated in a camp held at ASU this month which teaches girls to become leaders in science. Carmen Atteberry, Bethany Kirk, Hannah Hull and Cassie Durden attended a three day camp put on by the Ohio Energy Project.
The purpose of the project is to get girls involved in physics and take leadership roles in science. The girls not only learned how to wire, saunter, and connect a complete circuit board that ran power from a bicycle; but participated in leadership training and listened to female speakers about the importance of women in science.
The Early Middle School is one of 15 schools in the state of Texas to ever attend the camp and receive a circuit board/energy bike worth $5000. The Ohio Energy Bike project will not return to Texas for several years because they rotate US states each summer. Their sponsor, Mrs. Tami Hull, is excited to be able to use this project in her classroom because of the TEKS and STAARS objectives it covers.
Mrs. Hull said, “I can cover energy types, energy transformations, power plants and energy conservation using the bike, circuit board and teaching tools given to us at the camp.”
Mrs. Hull found out about the camp through by an email from the regional educational center. The camp was completely paid for by the AEP foundation which included lodging, meals and supplies for the girls and their sponsor.
Pictured at top, left to right, are Bethany Kirk, Ohio Energy Project teacher, Hannah Hull and Carmen Atteberry connect the bike to the circuit board while Cassie Durden is sauntering connections to the capacitors so the board can store energy produced by riding the bike.
Early Middle School girls that attended the Activating and Energizing Girls in Science Camp are L-R: Tami Hull (sponsor), Carmen Atteberry, Cassie Durden, Bethany Kirk, and Hannah Hull
Pictured above: Bethany Kirk and Cassie Durden “wire up” the energy circuit board by reading a schematic instructional sheet.
