Sweet, Sweet Science: Addressing the Gender Gap in STEM Disciplines through a One-Day High School Program in Sugar Chemistry

Mindy Levine; Dana J. Discenza

doi:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00900

Sweet, Sweet Science: Addressing the Gender Gap in STEM Disciplines through a One-Day High School Program in Sugar Chemistry

Mindy Levine, Dana J. Discenza

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Abstract

Reported herein is the design, implementation, and evaluation of a full-day outreach program for high school girls that focuses entirely on sugar-related activities. The program, which we ran in February 2016 and February 2017, included multiple hands-on sugar-based experiments to increase the participants' interest in and enthusiasm for science. The success of the program was quantitatively evaluated through the administration of precamp and postcamp surveys. Overall, the survey results indicated a statistically significant improvement in responses in one of the two program years, which corresponds to success in changing the participants' attitudes regarding the practical applicability of science and in increasing their interest in pursuing scientific careers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1316-1322
Number of pages	7
Journal	Journal of Chemical Education
Volume	95
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00900
State	Published - 14 Aug 2018
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Crystals/Crystallography
Demonstrations
Hands-On Learning/Manipulatives
High School/Introductory Chemistry
Public Understanding/Outreach

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

General Chemistry
Education

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Sweet, Sweet Science: Addressing the Gender Gap in STEM Disciplines through a One-Day High School Program in Sugar Chemistry

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