Middle
School Students To Receive Awards In HCC’s Girls and Science
Technology Program
Published: Hartford Inquirer July 7, 2004
Some 25 middle school girls from throughout South Central and Southwestern
Connecticut will receive certificates and awards Friday (July 2) at ceremony
marking completion of a one-week “Girls in Science and Technology” program
at Housatonic Community College. The weeklong program included presentations
by women instructors who work in the physics, chemistry and computer
science fields as well as hands-on lab sessions. The Girls in Science
program builds upon the three successful Girls and Technology Expositions
HCC has conducted since 2002. In these day-long events, more than 350
seventh grade girls from across Central and Western Connecticut have
come to HCC to learn how new technologies are used in a wide range of
fields such as law enforcement, science, art, physical therapy, health
and medicine, and manufacturing. The awards ceremony will begin at 10
a.m. in Room A101 at the college. This week’s Girls in Science
and Technology program was made possible by grant from the Fairfield
County Community Foundation Fund for Women and Girls. With a seven-year-old
campus in the heart of Connecticut's largest city, Housatonic is one
of the country's fastest-growing public community colleges. Since it
moved to the new campus in January 1997, HCC's enrollment has increased
76 percent. According to the most recent statistics released by the Washington
D.C.- based American Association of Community Colleges, Housatonic was
the Northeast's second fastest-growing community college and its fastest-growing
in terms of full-time students. In response to increased enrollments
and changing workplace needs both regionally and nationally, Housatonic
has increased the number of programs offered from 43 to 63 since moving
to its new campus.
