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Girls Scouts Get New, Updated Badges; Reflect Science & Technology
In Camp, Conferences, Education, Girls, Leadership, Media & Technology on October 16, 2011 at 3:44 pmHave You Played Video Games With Your Daughter Today?
In Girls, Media & Technology on February 6, 2011 at 11:11 amAccording to a new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health, gaming may be good for teen girls’ mental health — so long as they play with their parents. A Times Magazine article addresses the benefits that video gaming and parental interaction can have on adolescent girls. Read the full article.
Girls Institute Offers Opportunity for Girls to be Themselves
In Camp, Education, Girls, Leadership on August 15, 2010 at 3:47 pmThe New York Time recently went inside Rachel Simmons’ Girls Leadership Institute, which directs camps and workshops designed to teach girls, educators and parents the core practices of emotional intelligence, healthy relationships, and assertive self-expression. Read the full article.
Dream it. Design it. Build it.
In Conferences, Education, Media & Technology, Uncategorized on May 17, 2010 at 8:11 amOn Saturday, May 22, 2010 D.C. FIRST Robotics – Washington DC-Area in partnership with Archbishop Carroll High School and DCRobotics presents Scratch Day!
Scratch is open source animation software from MIT great for age 7 (or early readers) through adult. It is a free computer programming resource that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. At this event, everyone is welcome to try out Scratch and learn about the on-line exchange. You can join Scratch enthusiasts in the Washington DC-area to meet and learn from each other! All interested students, parents and teachers are invited.
More information is available at www.dc-first.org.
OMG! 100 Texts/day 4 Girls!
In Girls, Media & Technology on April 20, 2010 at 11:30 amU.S. high-school girls typically send and receive 100 text messages a day, according to a study, which found that cheaper mobile-phone plans have boosted the technology’s popularity among young people.
According to the BusinessWeek article:
The surging use of text messages bodes well for mobile- phone makers because teenagers tend to become reliant on their wireless devices without realizing it, said Scott Campbell, one of the study’s co-authors. Texting teens are 42 percent more likely to leave their phones on or near their beds when they go to sleep than those that don’t send texts, the study found.
