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FALCONS COMPLETE SWEEP BEING AN EXTROVERTThe BG Hockey team swept its weekend series at home against Bemidji State. The Falcons will return to action Dec. 5 on the road at Northern Michigan. | PAGE 3

Columnist Abigail Kruse talks about what it means to be an introvert and extrovert. She talks about all the ways modern technology has made it dif-ficult to be an extrovert. | PAGE 4

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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO PREPARE FOR WINTER?

“I grew a beard and got my Carhartt out.”

WOMEN IN STEMThe University invites young females to participate in program designed to encourage excite-ment around career fields in STEM. Read more on Page 2.

LIGHTING CHRISTMAS TREEUniversity prepares for upcoming winter seasonNational Weather Service unsure if winter will be worse this year versus past seasons

Students, residence experience Indian food, performances at the “Diwali Mela”

FESTIVALOF LIGHTS

By Corey MaxwellReporter

Winter season is upon us and the University is gearing up to prepare for the snow.

According to the National Weather Service in Wilmington, there aren’t currently any factors that are “stand-ing out” to suggest that this winter will be worse than last year’s record-breaking one, but that hasn’t stopped the University’s Campus Services in preparing for the snowfall.

“We have a lot of equipment turn-over, meaning a lot of our machines are capable of helping us in both the warm and the cold months,” said Director for Campus Services Andrea Depinet.

The Campus Services Ground Crew has to clear snow on over 33 miles of sidewalk and four miles of roadways on campus during the winter. Some of the equipment used in clearing snow includes plows on trucks and front-end loaders.

They also use stakes to mark where sidewalks and roadways are and use deicers to remove snow from entrance ways of campus buildings.

Campus Services have also made

some adjustments this year that will better prepare them for snow-fall, including implementing walkie-talkies to all the team members and teaming up with an organization that provides national weather data to the University.

“Before, we would watch the news and keep an eye on the National Weather Service to get information on the weather, but it wasn’t always spot-on,” Depinet said.

This new system will provide much more accurate weather information that will better allow the campus to be better prepared, Depinet said.

“We are also working on installing TVs in the garages and where other members of the University work to display this new weather data so that it’s easier to stay in the loop,” Depinet said.

Since there isn’t enough informa-tion currently to tell whether the upcoming winter will be colder than last year’s, it’s unclear whether the University will have to cancel classes like they did last winter. The current cancellation policy states campus will only close when Wood County declares a Level 3 Snow Emergency

for the area.However, junior Chris Starace does

think that there are some things the University can do to become more mindful for when there are hazard-ous weather conditions.

“I think they just need to have more caution for people’s health hazards. I live off-campus and if I can’t get a place to park, then I have to walk and I don’t think that’s always necessarily safe in the winter,” Starace said.

Starace did have one idea on what the University should do to make going to class and campus easier for students.

“I think changing the time of use on campus parking lots would really help,” Starace said. “Changing the time from 7:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. would really help for those that have late classes and don’t want to have to walk. Or they could open up more parking lots to students during the winter, or even when it just gets really cold.”

Since it remains to be seen what kind of weather winter is going to bring, Depinet offered a final piece of advice for students waling to class.

“Just bundle up,” Depinet said.

By Corey MaxwellReporter

The Indian Student Association held the 29th annual “Diwali Mela” Nov. 22 in the Union Ballroom.

The event featured authentic Indian food as well as authentic singing and dance performances throughout the night.

University President Mary Ellen Mazey helped kick off the event with a speech regarding the event and how it helps spread diversity throughout the University.

“This is the culmination of International Week here at BGSU and I cannot imagine anything that would be more innovating than this event this evening,” Mazey said. “Part of the BGSU strategic plan is inclusiveness and appreciating diversity and that’s what we’re here tonight to celebrate and be a part of.”

Provost and Senior Vice President Rodney Rogers added the importance of celebrating Diwali Mela on campus.

“What a great event this is,” Rogers said. “It’s one of the highlights of the academic year.”

The “festival of lights” featured a number of dance performances including a performance of Andhra Natyam by doctoral student Srihimaja Nandamudi. Andhra Natyam is an Indian classical dance that origi-

nated in the state of Andhra Pradesh and is a fusion of Bharatanatyam and Kuchipudi dance styles.

Poorna Roy, a doctoral student in photochemical sci-ences, performed a medley of Bollywood songs includ-ing a song from the Indian movie ‘Ek Villain’.

Sushmitha Ravikumar, a chemical engineering major at Ohio State, performed on the violin and key-board and was welcomed with a standing ovation as her performance concluded.

“Thank you so much for this opportunity, I’m so happy to be here,” Ravikumar said. “It was definitely a privilege to be able to perform in front of you. I hope I was able to share some of my musical journeys and experiences with you all and I hope you learned some-thing as well.”

The night concluded with an authentic Indian fash-ion show with many regions of India being represented including Gujarat, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh. The participants wore traditional Indian clothing including the dhoti, kurta and saris.

The co-hosts of the event wrapped up the night by voicing their appreciation for attending and participat-ing in Diwali Mela.

“We hope you take with you the love and warmth we have showed during this event. Thank you for joining in our celebration,” they said.

ERIC BURGASSER | THE BG NEWS

TOP: Dancers perform Saturday night at the 29th annual “Diwali Mela” hosted by the Indian Student Association.

BOTTOM: Student performs a traditional dance at the “festival of lights.”

EVAN FRY | THE BG NEWS

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LEFT: Sixth through eighth grade females were invited to “Women in STEM”.

MIDDLE: Instructor shows junior high school students reptiles.

RIGHT: The annual event is designed to encourage young females to pursue a career in the STEM field.

CORRECTIONPOLICY We want to correct all factual errors. If you think an error has been made, call The BG News at 419-372-6966.

BLOTTER

University invites young women to STEM program, share stories

Encouraging Young Minds

Peer educator program allows students to spread health educationEducators presented at Bacchus General Assembly; a conference at the University that talk, develop new programs

By Jon Stinchcomb Reporter

The first step for the “Women in STEM” program was to lay down the “roots.”

The annual event, which celebrated its 30th anniver-sary this past Friday, recog-nized those roots as encour-aging young girls from grades six through eight to become excited, brave and vocal

about enjoying science. STEM stands for science,

technology, engineering and mathematics.

Jodi Haney, science edu-cation professor at the University and the program’s keynote speaker, recalled a story from when she was at that age.

Haney said she was lucky enough to have an inven-tive father and a mother who

loved nature. Still, after tak-ing a career placement test that was meant to help young students find career interests, she said she was surprised to see “engineer” as her result back then.

Haney remembered think-ing at the time, “Huh, that’s interesting. Why would they think I would be good at

By Ryan HansonReporter

Senior Laparis Grimes wanted to talk to her peers about impor-tant health informa-tion, so she became a peer educator.

Faith Yingling, the director of Wellness Connection, said that a peer educator is a student who provides health and wellness education to other students.

First year graduate stu-dent and peer educator

advisor Matt Reising said that peer educators learn about tough topics such as sexual health, sexual assault, alcohol aware-ness, bystander interven-tion and stress relief.

“If this is the way I can help get [health] informa-tion to my peers,” Grimes said. “I thought it was a really good thing to do on campus.”

Four of the University’s peer educators made a pre-sentation at the Bacchus General Assembly this year. It is a conference

where peer educators and program advisors from other schools attend to talk about peer educa-tion and how to develop new programs.

Reising said that at least 40 presentations were turned down, so he said it was a huge honor to be able to present at the conference. The University’s peer educa-tors gave a presentation on healthy relationships.

The University’s peer educators who went also attended many different

speakers and programs to find ways to integrate different peer educa-tor techniques into the peer educator program at the University.

“It’s a really powerful experience to see so many students want to take the initiative to go make dif-ferences on their campus-es,” Reising said.

Grimes pointed out some particular events where all the peer edu-cators and program advi-sors at the conference were in one room togeth-

er. She said that this gave her a visual for just how many peer educators there were from many different backgrounds.

“It was, at sometimes, overwhelming to see all people who were also peer educators and are as passionate about the same topics as we are,” Grimes said.

Reising said that any-one who can step out of their comfort zone and has a drive to teach

See STEM | Page 6

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By Aaron ParkerReporter

Bowling Green came back from a nine point deficit to win 60-50 against University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to get their second win of the season.

The game had a very different feel from the last time these teams matched up when Bowling Green won in the Stroh Center 87-64 last year.

Both teams struggled on the offensive end all through the first half. Only a combined 29 points was scored and the Panthers shot 23.1 percent from the floor while the Falcons shot 18.8 percent.

“I don’t know if you want to call this a tale of two halves, a roller-coaster ride or whatever you want to call it,” BG head coach Jennifer Roos said. “I thought we played really well defensively in the first half, and we were only down by three because of that defensive effort.”

Ashley Green, who was aver-aging 33 points a game for the Panthers coming into the game, continued her high-scoring season to fluster BG on defense. Green was the only person on her team to score double digits with 23 points.

Green also lead her team in per-centages shooting 75 percent from the floor and 100 percent from the free throw line.

On the other end, Bowling Green had balanced scoring as their line up continues to fluctu-ate. Sophomore Rachel Konieczki, junior Miriam Justinger, and red-shirt junior Erica Donovan each scored double digits to lead their team to the win.

Donovan neared a double-double with nine rebounds in the game to add to the team total 46. The Falcons were able to capitalize on a lot of those rebounds with 18 second chance points, 14 of those points coming in the second half.

Turnovers also played a big part in the game as Milwaukee

gave the ball up 24 times. Bowling Green was aggressive off the break, scoring 25 points from those turnovers.

The Falcons found themselves down by nine late in the second half before Roos called a timeout. Out of that break Bowling Green rallied behind a pair of Konieczki three pointers. The sophomore was 3-for-6 on the night behind the arc.

“We had a lot of good looks throughout the entire game, but it felt like there was a lid on the basket for many kids,” Roos said. “But, Rachel Konieczki really led the way in our comeback.”

Three of Donovan’s 14 points also came big late in the game after connecting on a contact lay-up and converting the and-one to put the Falcons up 5. Bowling Green lead for the rest of the game for a comfortable win.

The team will be back in play Nov. 28 when they go against UC Irvine in Los Angeles.

By Scott SadowskiReporter

American International College defeated Bowling Green club rugby 46-40 Saturday in one of the most anticipated American College Rugby Championship bowl match-ups of 2014.

AIC is a varsity rugby program, meaning they can offer scholar-ships, paid coaches and things of that nature.

Captain Alex Garnaut knew that one team had to lose on Saturday but was still proud of his team’s effort.

“No one was hanging their head because we all knew that everyone of us gave their best effort,” he said after the game.

AIC showcased a bit more speed and BG showed more power but, for the most part, both teams were

evenly matched. The Yellow Jackets jumped out to

an early 24-0 lead over the Falcons to begin the game. BG needed a big play and momentum or else the game could have become a blow-out.

BG’s Griffen Palmer and Frank Viancourt, who have produced big plays throughout the entire season, converted on two tries to go into the half losing 24-14.

With 10 minutes to go in the sec-ond half, BG found themselves in another hole down 41-21.

The Falcons made one final push, knowing this game was all or nothing.

Tries from Alex Garnaut and Mitch Sora brought the score to 41-33 AIC, causing a big momen-tum shift and bringing the crowd

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Pair of Rachel Konieczki three pointers fuels Falcon comeback late in second halfBG comeback not enough to defeat varsity program

American International College, ending team’s season

BG uses late rally to defeat Panthers Falcons fall short in American College Rugby Championship

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By Corey KrupaReporter

The Falcon hockey team swept Bemidji State at home to improve their overall record to 10-3-1 and 7-1-0 in conference play. It’s the team’s best start since the

1995-1996 season. “We took care of our home-ice, which we wanted to take care of and needed to take

care of,” said BG coach Chris Bergeron. On Friday night, BG defeated Bemidji State 3-1. The Beavers took the lead early in

the game with a first period goal. However, the Falcons scored three unanswered goals in the win.

Tommy Burke recorded 21 saves on the night. Burke now has a 4-2-1 record on the season.

Midway through the second period, BG forward Adam Berkle scored his first goal of the season to tie the game 1-1. Mike Sullivan and Dan DeSalvo recorded assists

on the goal.Mike Sullivan scored 17 seconds into the third period to make it 2-1 in favor of the Falcons. Defenseman Sean Walker recorded an assist on the

play.With 13 seconds remaining in regulation, Jakob Reichart added an empty net goal, giving the Falcons a 3-1 victory.

On Saturday night, BG defeated the Beavers

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Falcons complete sweep against Bemidji State at home

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ALYSSA N. BENES | THE BG NEWS

Do you consider yourself an introvert or an extrovert or some of both?

Most are a little of both. I used to think introver-

sion was the same thing as shyness. Actually, it has less to do with shyness and more to do with how you lose or gain energy.

I read an article on “Thought Catalog” recent-ly that contained a pretty perfect analogy: “Think of each of us as having a little cup of energy available.” For introverts, each social inter-action takes a little out of the cup instead of filling it like it does for extroverts.

For people whose little cup of energy is depleted by too much time around people, the holidays can be stressful, with their con-stant parade of places to go and people to see.

And in case you couldn’t tell by store décor and radio stations already playing Christmas music [not that I’m complaining], the hol-idays are upon us. At the risk of sounding heartless, I genuinely have no clue on advice to offer those folks.

I love the chaos and joyful banter of the holiday season. I love having Thanksgiving and Christmas with my cous-ins who double as neighbors. I love hosting my mom’s best friend and her family for New Year’s Eve.

I love catching up with old friends when I’m home on break. I genuinely don’t mind relatives’ questions about my present and future.

I need very little alone time to be happy and healthy, but somehow that doesn’t make me a party girl.

I don’t have much patience for the bar scene.

Call me old-fashioned, but I know exactly how much sleep I need to function, and if I’m going to skimp, it’s going to be for something impor-tant, like a friend’s recital or a

good conversation. I like hanging out with any

number of people someplace where it’s easier to hear our-selves talk any day.

My family lives in the out-skirts of a small town. It’s not a proper neighborhood and I can see why my mom pines for the neighborliness of her hometown of Kirtland, Ohio.

Like her, I need suburbia. It might be some people’s idea of hell, living in a suburb or a city with people all around, but to me it’s not only prefer-able but necessary.

You would think that social media is a godsend to crazy folks like me with a constant need for socialization. And it is - in small doses.

I often get frustrated at the lack of interpersonal interaction these days. We routinely block each other out with headphones and iPhones.

I like listening to music when walking across cam-pus or through town, but that never precludes me from greeting and chatting with friends along the way.

Last week I went solo to a hockey game. My friends were busy, but I figured it would be easy as usual to strike up a conversation with people around me. I figured wrong.

It almost seemed weirder to introduce myself and talk than it was to play with my iPod and pretend it was a smartphone to blend in. In a sea of over 5,000 people, I felt alone. What can I say?

I’m not very hip with the times.

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Popular movie reflects current situation at American colleges

This weekend I watched the first installment of “The Hunger Games” for the first time.

They say the books are even better and I know the third movie just came out, but it takes me a while to catch up with popular culture not aimed at my generation.

This action movie in a dysto-pian setting shows some impres-sive historical awareness.

Whenever something seemed exaggerated, I could think of a real-life precedent.

The outlandish outfits of the managerial class recalled eigh-teenth-century European aris-tocrats. The fence between dis-tricts was a less lethal version of barriers that once separated East Germany from West.

The crowds of drab rural res-idents could have come from the Great Depression. The gray stone tribunal looked like Nazi-era architecture.

The universal surveillance was like our contemporary saturation of security cameras, expanded into the woods.

The Games themselves have many precedents, from the gladiators of ancient Rome, to medieval jousts, to so-called reality TV like “The Voice” or “Survivor.” The competitors need coaches and sponsors and the 24/7 media presence sounds like sports broadcasts or cable news.

As in Rome and medieval Europe, the stakes are exis-tential: lives are sacrificed for entertainment, to distract people from real issues and to put enough fear into them that they’d never even think of holding an Uprising again.

“The Hunger Games” is, among other things, an alle-gory for the situation of stu-dents at modern American state universities.

Ever since the universities expanded in the 1960s and spawned uprisings, changed policies have steadily driv-en those demons back into Pandora’s box.

Access to university edu-cation has been made more difficult [reduced state sup-port], while young people are constantly reminded that this education is the key to gainful employment.

The burden of paying for education has been shifted to the trainees themselves and the competition for jobs also allows for training employees on the job without paying for it, in the form of internships.

By emphasizing the material stakes and ensnaring students in debt, we have moved away from a vision of social mobility and given the mass of citizens something the elites always took for granted: enough awareness of the world, by means of the liberal arts, to be able to see critically how the real world works and how the objects of critical study—”The Hunger Games,” for exam-ple—reflect that world.

From the 50s to the 70s, pub-lic universities let the working class join the middle class.

Nowadays, if you’re lucky enough to win the Hunger Games, they’ll possibly, maybe, let you stay within the middle class, whatever form it’s now tak-ing. But they assure you’ll stay beholden to your sponsors.

In old Rome they called it panem et circenses: “bread and the circuses.” Keep the masses fed and entertained and they won’t bother to question the powers that be. State campus-es provide plenty of food and entertainment.

It’s up to us to make sure they continue to provide the critical tools for understanding what that means for our society.

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3-2. Falcon goalie Chris Nell recorded 35 saves on the night in his first career col-legiate start at home. Nell now has a 4-0-0 record on the season.

“We were able to find a way. Chris Nell was a big part of that,” Bergeron said.

In the first period, Mitch McClain scored on the power play to give the Falcons an early 1-0 lead. Brandon Hawkins and Mark Friedman

recorded assists on the play. Matt Pohlkamp scored

a shorthanded goal to give BG a 2-0 advantage at the

17:52 mark in the opening period. Nolan Valleau and Dan DeSalvo tallied assists on the goal.

At the 4:39 mark in the second period, Bemidji State scored an unassisted goal to make the score 2-1. Sean Walker added an empty net goal late in the third period to give the Falcons a 3-1 lead with less than a minute left in regulation.

Seconds later, the Beavers

scored when they pulled their goalie to have a 6-on-5 man advantage. But, BG was able to hold off Bemidji State and earn a weekend series sweep at the BG Ice Arena.

“By no means was it a masterpiece, we’re very impressed with Bemidji State,” Bergeron said.

Saturday’s game had 19 combined penalties between both teams. Bemidji State had seven power play oppor-tunities and was held score-less on the man advantage.

“We have a great system. There’s a lot of poise and

focus,” said defenseman Sean Walker.

The Beavers were held scoreless on the power play the entire weekend, going 0-for-9.

“I’ve been happy with the penalty kill. I don’t think we’ve been hanging on, I think we’ve been dominat-ing,” Bergeron said.

BG’s next game will be on the road at Northern Michigan on December 5th. The next home game at the BG Ice Arena will be on January 9th when they take on the Alaska Nanooks.

to their feet. Steve Fritsch’s diving score

brought the Falcons with-in one point of the Yellow Jackets, 41-40 AIC.

AIC responded with a try of their own. On the kickoff after the AIC score, BG recov-ered it and an AIC defender tipped the pass, allowing time to expire. AIC won 46-40 after a thrilling final 10 minutes.

Head coach Tony Mazzarella was proud of his team for never giving up until the final whistle was blown.

“We may have lost on the scoreboard but we won the intangibles - grit, determi-

nation and commitment. I wouldn’t trade these guys or this team for anyone” he said.

BG finishes the season ranked eighth in the nation with an 11-2 record, both losses coming against var-sity programs, AIC and Davenport University.

After graduating 18 play-ers last year, many thought the Falcons would have a down year due to their youth and inexperience. Niall McNamara said he was pleased with how this youth-ful team played.

“We just came back even stronger this year” he said.

With such a young team, the upside and potential for BG club rugby is clear. With more experience, next season could result in even more success.

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ALYSSA N. BENES | THE BG NEWS

A FALCON swimmer competes in the backstroke in one of the swimming and diving teams’ matches earlier this season held at Cooper Pool.

MARK FRIEDMAN looks to complete a pass in one of the Falcons’ weekend victories against Bemidji State this past weekend at the BG Ice Arena.

Swimming and diving places in ninth place at Georgia Tech Invitational this past weekendFalcons face nationally-ranked competition

By Katie WernkeReporter

The Bowling Green swim-ming and diving team ended in ninth place after its par-ticipation in the three-day Georgia Tech Invitational.

Twenty-one swimmers competed in finals on Saturday evening. Estela Davis raced in four final events, coming in 2nd place in the ‘B’ final in the 200-yard backstroke. Overall, Davis placed 12th in that event.

Victoria Griffin competed in the 100-yard freestyle. Much like Davis, Griffin raced to 2nd in the ‘B’ final and 12th overall.

Griffin also finished 5th in the ‘B’ final of the 50-yard freestyle, coming in 15th place overall.

With the team’s first-ever Georgia Tech Invitational complete, head coach Petra Martin said she is happy with

how the team swam in a new environment and situation.

“Overall it was pretty good,” Martin said. “We didn’t really rest them at all so some people were more tired than others. At this point it’s about overcoming that and just doing great things, doing things correctly, no matter how bad you feel. So I think some of them still need to learn that.”

One athlete that seemed to adapt to the travel was Daniela Carrillo. Carrillo raced to an NCAA B quali-fying cut in the 200-yard breaststroke. Carrillo is the first swimmer on the team to qualify for NCAA cuts so far this season.

Going up against national-ly ranked teams and athletes, the Falcons gained experi-ence swimming at a higher level. Martin says what was learned at the invitational

will carry over into Mid-American Conferece meets and other races later in the season.

“I think it’s good that we can deal with adversity,” Martin said. “I don’t want them to be comfortable. That’s not the name of the game. They need to be able to swim fast and do great things no matter where and no mat-ter against who.”

As for the travel, this was the first time Bowling Green traveled as a complete team for that amount of distance.

“It was a long day on Wednesday,” Martin said. “Because of weather we had some delays and whatnot, so we were running a lot behind schedule. We recovered from that pretty well and a lot of them did a good job on the first day. Some people were better than others and we kind of expected that.”

Diving had been working on new techniques and dif-ficulties to add to the dives in order to increase scores. Despite finishing no higher than 42 in the 1- and 3-meter dives, Martin says the team had an opportunity to learn even more.

“They are still very much at the beginning of what they are learning and what they are doing,” Martin said. “It’s a learning experience. For them, it’s their first time around in anything like this. I don’t expect them to just jump into things and know everything or how to approach it, which is why we’re going to start doing it now to teach them the right way.”

Bowling Green will have a one-week break before head-ing to the Eastern Michigan Invitational in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

A BG club rugby player competes in one of the team’s matches earlier this season. This weekend the Falcons ended their season with a loss in the championship.

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being a guy who wears over-alls and sits at the back of the train...”

Despite the fact that her dad was engineer, at that age, that’s all she thought an engineer was.

Some of Haney’s other rel-atives ushered her into the general direction of educa-tion, them being teachers as well, she said.

And while many years have passed since then, she noticed how she was sort of pigeon-holed in a direc-tion away from engineer-ing and that some of those same barriers for women are still there.

She did eventually find a career “teaching teachers to teach science,” which she considers a major part of her identity, she said.

The Women in STEM program was designed to help students get excited about STEM.

It was organized and coor-dinated by the Northwest Ohio Center for Excellence in STEM Education [NWO], which is a partnership between a number of area colleges, universities and K-12 schools with the shared goal of advancing STEM education.

University President Mary Ellen Mazey shared a story similar to Haney’s.

Masey said it seemed like just yesterday that she was where the young students were.

“Young women, I can tell you there isn’t anything more exciting than science,” Mazey said.

Mazey has a Ph.D. in urban geography, but said she also has a master’s degree in environmental geology.

She remembered testing water during her course-work and compared it to today. Mazey noted how she had just recently been in a meeting where they dis-cussed a smart phone app being developed on-cam-pus for testing water, which she mentioned could have been very useful with the recent water hazards across the area.

Mazey said that’s what makes science so excit-ing, finding new and innovative solutions for real-world issues.

“Think about it today, think about it tomorrow and think about it for your future,” Mazey said. “But most of all, have fun.”

Both Haney and Mazey agreed the most important thing was that these young women enjoyed the day learning about science.

That, too, was what the Women in STEM program on Friday was about, teach-ing these girls at such an impressionable age not only that science can be lots of fun, but it’s the way it should be, they said.

Among all of the students in attendance, smiles were in abundance and resound-ing, enthusiastic laughter rang out not long after activ-ities began.

The joy these girls were having could be seen unequivocally, even during one simple experiment, for example, designed to teach Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion.

“It motivates me as a pro-fessor to think about what I do with my students,” Haney said. “I like the say-ing, ‘Because good is not good enough.’ We may have good teaching, but we want great teaching and great experiences. That’s how we innovate our way into the

future.” The event including many

other interactive hands-on learning experiences from a wide range of sci-entific fields, from animals to rockets and everywhere in-between.

Haney said these “seeds” of teaching science are vital to the industry and keep-ing youth interested. She stressed hands-on educa-tion, material that’s relevant, offering students choice and letting them be creative.

It has to be fun for stu-dents to care, she said, so the key is for science teachers to foster a “joyful learning experience.”

In addition to the fun aspects of the event, it was still relevant to real-world issues and opportunities.

Joetta Kynard, office man-ager for NWO and coordina-tor of the Women in STEM program, said attendees got the chance to explore what it’s like in various careers from all four STEM fields, science, technology, engi-neering and mathematics.

“STEM is everywhere: at school, on the playground, at home and at work,” Kynard said. “Whether it’s found in friction on a slide, measur-ing the spoke of a ladder, or examining the swing of a pendulum, STEM is every-where.”

others can become a peer educator.

Grimes said that she thinks a lot of people have the misconception that in order to be a peer educa-tor, the person needs to have good presentation skills. She said that she took the HHS 4400 class

where she watched peer educators give presenta-tions, which built her own confidence to present.

Grimes said she also learned how to speak impromptu and became more aware of how she presented herself profes-sionally to other people.

“We try and give you these tools to put in your tool box to become successful at being a

presenter and learn-ing [health] topics,” Reising said. “That’s why I would encourage any-one to try it if they care about changing.”

Yingling said that stu-dents can take HHS 4400 or an intensive weekend training course in order to become a peer educa-tor. The weekend course will be Jan. 24 and Jan. 25 from noon-6p.m.

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