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  'Physics Girl' Tells How She Makes Kids Love STEM Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-08-08 20:55 -0500
    Re: 'Physics Girl' Tells How She Makes Kids Love STEM benj <nobody@gmail.com> - 2015-08-09 01:27 -0400
    Re: 'Physics Girl' Tells How She Makes Kids Love STEM Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-08-09 22:11 +0000
    Re: 'Physics Girl' Tells How She Makes Kids Love STEM Fabian Russell <root@localhost.localdomain> - 2015-08-09 23:35 +0000

#512037 — 'Physics Girl' Tells How She Makes Kids Love STEM

'Physics Girl' Tells How She Makes Kids Love STEM
> http://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2015/08/04/physics-girl-dianna-cowern-tells-how-she-makes-kids-love-stem

> In many ways, Dianna Cowern is the quintessential role model STEM
> education advocates have been searching for.
>
> She's young, female and a successful college graduate with a
> bachelor's degree in physics from a prestigious university. And she
> understands the urgent need to make science, technology, engineering
> and math fun and appealing to young students.
>
> "The main reason it's important to have more women in the 'hard'
> sciences, like chemistry and physics, is that they're
> underrepresented now," Cowern recently told curiosity.com. "We're
> missing out on a huge portion of the population that could be
> contributing to research and engineering."


> "I spent a lot of my childhood trying to hide I like science and
> math," Cowern told a panel during the 2015 U.S. News STEM Solutions
> Conference in San Diego.
>
> Her parents and teachers, however, inspired her to embrace her
> interests.
>
> "They took me to science museums, they took me to math competitions,"
> Cowern said. "And eventually I got a degree in physics. It was that
> encouragement and that push for curiosity."

> Nicknamed "happy pants" in college, Cowern researched dark matter
> with professor Jocelyn Monroe as an undergraduate at MIT, and
> low-metallicity stars with professor Anna Frebel as a
> post-baccalaureate research fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center
> for Astrophysics, before heading to GE where she worked as a software
> engineer designing mobile apps.
>
>
> After struggling to find a way to put her physics degree to good use,
> Cowern created a YouTube channel featuring videos that teach
> different physics concepts in an engaging way – using a stacked ball
> drop to explain properties of a supernova, or explaining the physics
> behind a curveball with soccer, for example.

> Cowern says her explanatory videos are "looking at the world around
> you and asking questions, and trying to explore different areas of
> physics."


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#512052

On 08/08/2015 09:55 PM, Sam Wormley wrote:
> 'Physics Girl' Tells How She Makes Kids Love STEM
>> http://www.usnews.com/news/stem-solutions/articles/2015/08/04/physics-girl-dianna-cowern-tells-how-she-makes-kids-love-stem
>>
>
>> In many ways, Dianna Cowern is the quintessential role model STEM
>> education advocates have been searching for.
>>
>> She's young, female and a successful college graduate with a
>> bachelor's degree in physics from a prestigious university. And she
>> understands the urgent need to make science, technology, engineering
>> and math fun and appealing to young students.
>>
>> "The main reason it's important to have more women in the 'hard'
>> sciences, like chemistry and physics, is that they're
>> underrepresented now," Cowern recently told curiosity.com. "We're
>> missing out on a huge portion of the population that could be
>> contributing to research and engineering."

Sam, here's a question of great personal importance to you: What does a 
person do in life if they were unfortunate enough to be born without a 
brain?  Answer: Become a journalist and work for USNews.

I read the article and oddly it doesn't define what STEM means ANYWHERE 
in it. So I click on the link "STEM Education" and I'm taken to another 
US News screed about some useless do-nothing STEM conference and that 
article doesn't define it either! Sheesh.

OK so one is supposed to figure out that STEM stands for Science 
Technology, Engineering and Math! Sure. And our big problem is to make 
all that "fun"! Just like PBS does with so-called science guys cracking 
stupid jokes, pretending to be morons (or maybe they aren't pretending) 
and laughing like hyenas. Yeah that will make kids turn from selling 
drugs to engineering! Mathematicians are all a million yuks. I 
personally love a "joke" where the punch line is "and the tensor went to 
zero!"

Sam these people are ALL total morons. YOU are a total moron for evening 
thinking they are doing something worthwhile. The USA bringing up the 
bottom of science education ratings in the world ought to be the big 
hint. Another should be the recent plan to drop all math from schools 
(because they figured out that once you leave school you never use it 
again so why waste time learning it?) Since cursive writing (and I 
presume pens and pencils) have gone the way of the model T one wonders 
if practice texting (in text shorthand jargon, natch) with your thumbs 
has now replaced actually learning how to write. These kids will be a 
big hit in college when they turn in their first essay written in Text 
message jargon.

Sam, if you want to advance the STEM goals, I can tell you EXACTLY how 
to do it! Just shut the fuck up! Close your moronic pie hole that 
discourages any kid with half a brain from looking into science and 
becoming the school nerd. Interest in science means everyone on the 
internet will call you a Kook and denier. Also YOU should quit being the 
perfect example of why a child today should choose to start a rock band 
rather than learn math or engineering.

Sam the REAL reason a kid should go into Science, technology, 
engineering or math is because with everyone else dumbed down, YOU (not 
"you" but the kid interested in math or science) become one of the few 
people left in the country who actually knows how things work. And that 
means you can name your price and stack money in bales in your spare 
room. Leave all the poor idiotic jokes about science being "fun" to the 
puerile morons on TV.  The real "fun" is spending all those bales of 
money. Just ask Bill Gates, Steve Jobs or the like.


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#512222

On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:55:23 -0500, Sam Wormley wrote:

>>
>> "The main reason it's important to have more women ...
>> [snip juvenile illogicality]
>>

Sammy is a staunch supporter of "affirmative action" policies
because he is the beneficiary of same.

He was hired to fill a quota for retards.

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#512261

On Sat, 08 Aug 2015 20:55:23 -0500, Sam Wormley wrote:

>>
>> She's young, female and a successful college graduate ...
>>

Sammy firmly believes that a woman can do anything he can do.

That certainly is true.

However, if we compare a woman with a *real* man then it becomes
an entirely different story.

Sammy exemplifies all progressive social liberal idiots.

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