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Albany, NY – OPENING BILLBOARD & EDUCATION HEADLINES - Glenn Busby (:45)
"ENTRY POINT! OPENS DOORS AND LAUNCHES WOMEN INTO STEM EDUCATION PROGRAMS AND CAREERS"
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day just wrapped up its 10th anniversary on Mother's Day. For the past ten years, women engineers have introduced more than one-million girls and young women to engineering. More than just a day, Introduce a Girl to Engineering is a national movement that shows girls how creative and collaborative engineering is, and how engineers are changing the world.
This also marks the 16th year for ENTRY POINT! It's a paid internship program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It provides a launching pad to graduate school and careers in STEM - science, technology, engineering, and math.
TBOOK visited with some of ENTRY POINT!'s women interns at the places they called home for ten weeks.
Allison Dunne reports. (14:59)
Featured in this story above are:
Entry Point! Director, Virginia Stern, American Association for the Advancement of Science
Dr. Ashok Srivastava, Data Mining Group, NASA Ames Research Center, CA.
Susannah Calhoun, Biology Major, Smith College, Massachusetts and
Intern, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia
Katie Browne, Computer Science Major, University of Nevada and
Intern, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California
"ACESS TO ADVANCEMENT" is supported by the National Science Foundation Research in Disabilities Education Program.
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ENTIRE VILLAGE COMMUNICATES USING SIGN LANGUAGE -
It may surprise you to learn that American Sign Language is close to surpassing German as the third-most-studied foreign language at U.S. colleges and universities. And enrollment in sign language classes is up 16% from just three years ago.
An estimated 20-million Americans have measurable hearing loss. Kristen Harmon, English Professor at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., says sign language is the primary language for as many as 500-thousand people in this country. Professor Harmon says it appeals to students who have deaf friends or family, or where occupations make it important to know.
Well, that seems to hold true in a small village in the mountains of Bali. All 2,400 people in the village use sign language to communicate, even though not all of them are deaf or hard of hearing.
World Vision's Dyssia Hayat reports. (2:46)
THE ACADEMIC MINUTE
"Study Methods and Learning Disabilities" -
This week's Academic Minute professor discusses student's different learning styles.
Jim Baucum is an Associate Professor of Social Science at Landmark College.
The Academic Minute is hosted by Dr. Lynn Pasquerella, a celebrated philosopher and medical ethicist, and President of Mount Holyoke College. (2:30)
SHOW CLOSE - Glenn Busby. (1:30)