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Girls At the Center Overview

Girls At the Center (GAC)

February 26, 2010 by Dale McCreedy

GAC, the first national collaboration to encourage family involvement in girls’ science learning, began in 1996 and has produced a project publication that makes the program and curricular resources available to youth-serving organizations and institutions. It emphasizes intergenerational learning and offers workshops and activities around 6 themes. During the funding period, 46 G.A.C. sites (47 science institutions & 44 Girl Scout councils across 24 states), reached 23,000 girl and adult participants. It is one of several evidence-based curriculum offered to afterschool programs through Great Science for Girls (GSG), an NSF-funded initiative led by the Educational Equity Center at AED.

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families, science, educational, girls, Girl, Scouts, intergenerational