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The GEMS Club at Inman Middle School Receives $7,500 GA Tech Award
Inman's Girls Excelling in Math and Science Club received the funds as part of a 2013 Educational Partnership Award.
Girls Excelling in Math and Science, better known as the GEMS Club at Inman Middle School, posed for a funny picture to celebrate their winning of the 2013 Educational Partnership Award from the Georgia Tech Center for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning.
TalkUp APS reported that the Educational Partnership Award is an annual Georgia Tech award of $7,500 that recognizes "genuine and substantial partnerships between the faculty and students of Georgia Tech and the K-12 community."
According to the APS blog, Georgia Tech professors, Carol Colatrella and Mary Lynn Realff, co-direct GEMS Club which is a joint project of the Center for the Study of Women, Science, and Technology (WST) and Inman Middle.
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The students will be honored in April at the annual Georgia Tech staff and faculty awards lunch.
The Inman Middle School club meets for 90 minutes once a week to perform experiments and other hands-on tasks. Now in its fifth year, more than 40 middle school girls take part.
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Congratulations GEMS Club members and faculty! Keep up the good work in the math and sciences field!
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