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Lab Girls lays the groundwork for female scientists Lab Girls held its first virtual meeting last Thursday with presenter Mirka Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord. Traditionally held once a week over the course of six weeks in local middle schools, the virtual Lab Girls format is held once a month through June and is open to students in grades 5 through 12. Staff photo by Tim Goodwin— Lab Girls held its first virtual meeting last Thursday wit...

Monadnock Ledger-Transcript Published: 1/12/2021 12:56:21 PM When Mirka Zapletal was growing up, she knew of a few female scientists – Marie Curie and Jane Goodall to be exact. All the rest, she thought, were men. “I just thought scientists were other people than me,” Zapletal, director of education at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, told the latest batch of Lab Girls participants Thursday night over the first-ever Zoom meeting of the program. But then after embarking on her car...

Published: 12/24/2020 10:18:48 AM The Harris Center for Conservation Education is accepting registrations for Lab Girls, an online learning opportunity for girls in 5th through 12th grade. Started in 2017 by the Harris Center, Lab Girls has been providing adolescent girls with a chance to grow their STEM mindset with opportunities to meet and learn from STEM professionals and engage in hands-on learning. This year, due to the constraints of the pandemic, Lab Girls is moving to a Zoom format and...

The rules are meant to increase transparency for political spending so we can see, of course, who is spending what to try to get what done. the bill was craft as a response to the supreme court ruling that allows corporations and other large groups to spend unlimited money. the least we could do is actually see it, but one of the main architects of the original legislation, the u.s. public interest research group, says it cant support the bill until the nra exception is listed. god bless them. n...