Image Source: https://las.illinois.edu/news/2019-08-16/getting-more-girls-geoscience

What an amazing opportunity for young ladies in Illinois. I’m thrilled to highlight this article that features my daughter, Aida Guhlincozzi (@arguhlin) and her colleague, Julia Cisneros (@Juliamorphology). Kudos to both of them for their hard work, as well as all the folks who supported this effort and hosted the event!

Here’s an excerpt:

When Aida Guhlincozzi and Julia Cisneros were younger, they each attended science camps that helped spark their interest in the geosciences.As they moved up the academic ladder, however, and each finished their undergraduate degrees at Texas A&M before coming to graduate school at Illinois, they noticed there were fewer and fewer women—especially women of color.Guhlincozzi, a PhD candidate in geography and geographic information science, and Cisneros, a PhD candidate in geology, wanted to begin to affect change themselves.

How did they begin to effect change?

…they came up with the idea to conduct a camp for middle school girls to break down barriers to geoscience. And on August 12-13, their vision became a reality, as 30 campers from local middle schools came to campus for two days of weather balloon launches, volcano demonstrations, drone flights, and other experiments and lessons in geoscience, including a live Skype discussion with NASA scientists.

Isn’t that amazing?

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