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Girls in Science Program
Katie Vogel, an educational specialist with the Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh, has been working with The Girls in Science Club at Eaton-Johnson Middle School in Henderson, NC. The fourteen girls were exposed to many areas of science and spent a considerable amount of time examining the water quality of a stream that runs through Fox Pond Park.
As an end of school project the girls decided to clear the area surrounding the streambed. Katie took this exercise another step and contacted Tom Harville regarding native plants for the girls to use. Tom had been working on a new plant rescue site that had exactly the plants needed for the stream site, notably Yellowroot, Xanthorhiza simplicissima.
The week prior to the cleanup, Marlene Kinney, Katie and Tom dug many bags of Yellowroot, Christmas ferns, Polystichum acrostichoides and Lady ferns, Anthyrium asplenioides for the project. The girls planted all of these plants along the stream bank and in wash areas.
Hopefully this experience will help these girls to be even more aware of Science and Nature working together.
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