Girls' Day in the Lab

Girls' Day in the Lab is an annual program at Hampshire to encourage young girls to consider science as a career path. While the gender gap in the sciences is limited to the "hard" sciences (the non-biological natural sciences), the program is really about helping young girls consider their career options covers all of the experimental sciences offered at Hampshire, and both the School of Cognitive Science and the School of Natural Science participate. Professors set up experiments for the girls to get a taste of what they do, and students run it. If one of the students who helps run these labs would expand on what they do exactly, that would be great.

Historically, Girls' Day in the Lab was offered in the fall, but in the 2008=2009 schoolyear it was switched with Day in the Lab, a program open to both sexes historically held in the spring, so that in case there were cuts in funding little boys would not be entirely left out.