DePauw Institute for Girls in Science Welcomes 30 to Campus June
25, 2008 June 25, 2008, Greencastle, Ind. - A total of 30 ninth
grade girls from across Indiana are on the DePauw University
campus this week for the annual DePauw Institute for Girls in
Science (DIGS). The summer camp, which was started by a group of
faculty members in the mid-1990s, brings teenage girls together
for intensive, hands-on learning in biology, chemistry, physics,
astronomy, economics and computer science. DePauw science
students and faculty serve as camp counselors and instructors.
Campers spend eight hours a day in a laboratory, field or
classroom for five days; the camp culminates with small group
presentations and a poster session for parents, teachers and the
DePauw scientific community. You're invited to attend the poster
session, which will take place Friday at 10 a.m. in the atrium
of the Percy Lavon Julian Science & Mathematics Center. It is
free and open to all. The DIGS program was created by a group of
women science fac