{"id":355,"date":"2019-03-25T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T04:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/?p=355"},"modified":"2024-05-23T10:43:53","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T00:43:53","slug":"aspire-holiday-program-reaching-out-to-regional-nsw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/blog\/2019\/03\/aspire-holiday-program-reaching-out-to-regional-nsw\/","title":{"rendered":"ASPIRE Holiday Program\u2013Reaching Out to Regional NSW"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">By Kristina Fidanovski<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-360\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-360\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo1-3-1024x604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"525\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo1-3-1024x604.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo1-3-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo1-3-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo1-3.jpg 2036w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ASPIRE Team (in red) with the boys and girls of Coolah (purple) and student helpers (blue).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt works!\u201d The girl\u2019s disgruntled face suddenly clears and lights up the same way her circuit just has. I don\u2019t get to admire her enthusiasm for long though\u2013I\u2019m drawn away to make sure the group aerial testing their light-up helicopter creations don\u2019t wind up with concussions to take home as well. I\u2019m in a small rural town in New South Wales running science workshops for APSIRE\u2019s holiday program. ASPIRE aims to empower disadvantaged kids and make university education a real and attainable option for them. Part of that mission is exposing kids to what a university education means and the broad range of fields that they could pursue. Across the school there are workshops going on in drama, programming, sport, art, and engineering for girls and boys across Years 4 to 8. We\u2019re building simple paper helicopters with finicky light up circuits for the science workshop. Neither Ngozi, my co-pilot, nor I know particularly much about circuits. It\u2019s been a while since my undergraduate in Physics and these days I can be more reliably found pouring something toxic into something flammable and hoping a polymer comes out the other end. Ngozi\u2019s optometry work in assessing habitual impacts on the ocular surface of children isn\u2019t helping her much either. We\u2019re doing admirably well, though; I think. Most people seem impressed with my improvised diagnostic tools as we try and get the little lights to turn on. A more challenging prospect than you might expect, but in my defence the wires are conductive tape that little fingers have mangled, not the standard insulated fair of science kits everywhere. Even the most irreverent and stubbornly cool preteens among the group\u2013who will remain nameless\u2013can\u2019t help being pleased when their circuits work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_361\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-361\" style=\"width: 890px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-361\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo4-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"890\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo4-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo4-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngozi showcases a new optometry program designed at UNSW to help researchers study eye-hand coordination in children.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhy does the plus side of the battery have to be connected to the plus side of the light?\u201d The girl asking is the loudest among a group of girls determined to convince anyone listening that they have no interest at all in anything that could be mistaken for school. I\u2019m onto them though; all their circuits work. Also, they have good questions.<\/p>\n<p>I freeze and cast my mind back to sitting in a lecture 5 years ago while a stereotypically old, white gentleman explained the principles of diodes to a hall full of young men. I was sitting two seats away from one of a handful of young women in our 60+ cohort. We hadn\u2019t spoken before and I was planning ways to start a conversation that wasn\u2019t just: \u201cWe should be friends because we\u2019re the only two girls currently in this room.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-359\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ngozi troubleshoots a helicopter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fortunately, I remember enough of the lecture to explain it to the satisfaction of a 12 year old (which is actually harder than if I could have just regurgitated the technical details to a colleague familiar with the function of an electron). It does remind me though, why I\u2019m out in regional Australia in the first place. Every lecturer I had at university, in both Chemistry and Physics, was old, white and male (except for the notable exception of our third-year lecturer on general relativity who was a breath of feminine-fresh air). In fact, even my high school teachers adhered to the stereotypes. Despite the reassurances of my family that I could, and indeed should, go into science, and the famous examples of female scientists they doggedly told me about, my face-to-face experiences with science had never been with someone who looked like me. Neither as a child, nor as an adult. I won\u2019t pretend that I\u2019m hoping a few hours spent in the company of two young PhD candidates waxing lyrical about research and science will be enough to turn that same stereotype around in the minds of the young girls and boys we encountered. I am hoping that it will spark something for them though. Our visit alone won\u2019t be enough. But maybe when they log on to Facebook tonight they\u2019ll see a lady scientist doing a demonstration video. Or they\u2019ll catch the tail end of an interview with a lady scientist on the news. And maybe next year when ASPIRE comes past again with another bright-eyed PhD student with no idea how to explain diodes to a 12 year old, that\u2019ll be enough to get them to think: \u201cI can do it too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspire.unsw.edu.au\/\">ASPIRE<\/a> at their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aspire.unsw.edu.au\/\">website<\/a>. We visited two schools\u2013in Gilgandra and the even tinier town of Coolah\u2013in the week we spent putting on workshops and science stalls, but ASPIRE visits schools across the region and they do incredible work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" style=\"width: 683px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-358\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/mathssciencechampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo3-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo3-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo3-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo3-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/stemmchampions\/files\/2019\/03\/20190319_KristinaFidanovski_Outreach_Photo3.jpg 1102w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I explain non-Newtonian fluids (a.k.a. make slime) while we wait for the sun to set and the moonlight cinema to begin. (Yes, my scarf is perfectly in character &#8211; it&#8217;s the exact one I wear underneath my lab coat when it gets chilly at work.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Follow Kristina on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Kris_Fidanovski\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow Ngozi on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NChidiEgboka\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Kristina Fidanovski \u201cIt works!\u201d The girl\u2019s disgruntled face suddenly clears and lights up the same way her circuit just has. I don\u2019t get to admire her enthusiasm for long though\u2013I\u2019m drawn away to make sure the group aerial testing their light-up helicopter creations don\u2019t wind up with concussions to take home as well. 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