{"id":15431,"date":"2019-08-02T13:13:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T17:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=15431"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:05:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:05:21","slug":"dearborn-pairs-sports-and-tech-to-keep-young-women-dreaming-big-about-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/02\/dearborn-pairs-sports-and-tech-to-keep-young-women-dreaming-big-about-stem\/","title":{"rendered":"Dearborn pairs sports and tech to keep young women dreaming big about STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/umdearborn.edu\/news\/articles\/summer-youth-golf-program-targeting-kink-stem-education-pipeline?maxWidth=80%25&amp;maxHeight=80%25&amp;inline=true&amp;title=Credit%3A%20Mimi%20Cummins%20via%20Flickr\/Creative%20Commons#picture-colorbox-GK9QCHgjDe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/9706382618_30451d3889_o-2-700x392.jpg\" alt=\"golf ball next to hole on putting green\" class=\"wp-image-15433\"\/><\/a><figcaption>(Mimi Cummins\/Flickr\/Creative Commons)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The City of Westland and UM-Dearborn\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) have joined forces to create an innovative way to target STEM\u2019s gender gap. \u201cStudies have shown that the middle to high school transition is when some young women start shifting away from things like engineering and computer science,\u201d says <strong>Jeanne Girard<\/strong>, director of Extended Learning and Outreach at UM-Dearborn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Girard and her team set out to design a program that could help sustain young women\u2019s interest in STEM subjects through this critical time. One idea that stuck: <a href=\"https:\/\/umdearborn.edu\/news\/articles\/summer-youth-golf-program-targeting-kink-stem-education-pipeline\">A two-week day camp that combines building mobile apps with playing golf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professional golfer and former U-M Dearborn golf coach <strong>Kelly Kuhlman<\/strong>, who\u2019s helping with the golf instruction, says golf and app development aren\u2019t as strange a match as they may appear. She says technology and analytics are playing a bigger role in the sport all the time. And with constant mental analysis of distances, trajectories, and angles of approach, there\u2019s a ton of computational problem solving that\u2019s baked into the game.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Westland and UM-Dearborn\u2019s College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) have joined forces to create an innovative way to target STEM\u2019s gender gap. \u201cStudies have shown that the middle to high school transition is when some young women start shifting away from things like engineering and computer science,\u201d says Jeanne Girard, director of Extended Learning\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2019\/08\/02\/dearborn-pairs-sports-and-tech-to-keep-young-women-dreaming-big-about-stem\/\">Read More 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