About a dozen middle school girls spent the day with real scientists at Syracuse University as part of the 2015 MOST Young Women Scientist Camp. Faculty from the College of Engineering and Computer Science partnered with faculty from the College of Arts and Sciences to participate in real-life science activities: everything from watching a real lava flow, to identifying components of sediment to learning how researchers tag and monitor whales in the ocean.
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