The news of girls kicking ass and taking names at the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology was all over the news last week.
Isha Jain (right) and her research partner, Professor Kathy Iovine.
Indian American Isha Jain won the top honors, and a $100,000 scholarship – for a pretty incredible experiment about bone growth in Zebra Fish. This win made me think of Hyphen contributor (Issue 11) Leena Pendharker, who wrote about the film she is making that focuses on a little Indian American girl and her science fair experiment.
I was never a science or math whiz, even though I remember working with my dad to enter some science fairs when I was in elementary school that were then displayed at the mall. It was a simple diorama that showed how windmills worked, or something. Does anyone have any good science fair stories?
Posted by neela at December 8, 2007 9:10 AM
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Is this even news? I was in Cambridge, MA on monday. The train was full of young Indian and East Asian women mostly with American accent talking something very complicated about aero-engineering. Why should anyone be surprised. The only reason we continue to have women in science and engineering today is because of East and South Asians. Try Georgia Tech. It is the same story!
"the only reason we continue to have women in science and engineering today is becasue of East and South Asians"
Raj, do you specialize in taking singular bits of data or personal experience and expanding them into blanket theories which cover whole sectors, communities, countries or continents? Not to belittle the contribution of Asian women in science or engineering, but as an engineer, I can tell you that ALL the women in that field are NOT Asian. I would be reluctant to even say the majority are.
Stay off of the broad generalizations...and please don't go out to research and post links to your plethora of statistical surveys in an attempt to bolster your point.
And "big up" to the young lady for winning the award!