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Free STEM Summer Camp for High School Girls

WGCU | By Julie Glenn,

Published May 23, 2019 at 10:03 AM EDT

Credit Florida Gulf Coast University

Florida Gulf Coast University is offering a free STEM Summer Camp for High School Girls. Participating 9-12th grade girls will learn about water quality issues facing Southwest Florida, and issues around climate change. Girls will be mentored in the latest climate change research and how it is related to south Florida. The camp includes boat trips and hands on lessons in field methodologies. They will collect all of their own samples and engage in authentic scientific research, will be mentored in laboratory practices and they will use state-of-the-art laboratory instruments in their analyses. We chat with FGCU associate professor of Marine Science and Geology, Dr. Joanne Muller, to learn more.

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Julie Glenn

Julie Glenn is the host of Gulf Coast Live. She has been working in southwest Florida as a freelance writer since 2007, most recently as a regular columnist for the Naples Daily News. She began her broadcasting career in 1993 as a reporter/anchor/producer for a local CBS affiliate in Quincy, Illinois. After also working for the NBC affiliate, she decided to move to Parma, Italy where she earned her Master’s degree in communication from the University of Gastronomic Sciences. Her undergraduate degree in Mass Communication is from the University of Missouri at Kansas City.

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Mike Kiniry

Mike Kiniry is producer of Gulf Coast Live, and co-creator and host of the WGCU podcast Three Song Stories: Biography Through Music. He first joined the WGCU team in the summer of 2003 as an intern while studying Communication at Florida Gulf Coast University.

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