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"Voices of Girls" was a three-year project funded by the National Science Foundation that helped middle-school-age girls do well and feel confident in science, math, and technology. The girls lived in urban and rural, low-income areas. The project resulted in several research papers and the UnCommon Knowledge video and curriculum materials.
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Girls from one of the poorest rural counties in the United States surprised their
families, teachers,
and even themselves when they set out on a three-year exploration of the science and
mathematics of everyday life.
The "Voices of Girls"
project was featured in the April 2000 issue of the 
This publication was prepared with funding from the National Science Foundation
under
grant no. HRD-9815117 and with funding from the U.S. Department of Education, Office
of Educational Research and Improvement, National Library of Education, under contract
ED-99-CO-0027. Other funding was provided by Union Carbide Corporation, Lyondell
Chemical Corporation, and AEL, Inc.
Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are
those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science
Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, AEL, Union Carbide, or Lyondell.
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