Mon, Aug 23, 2010
Mary J. Blige Joins Agency To Encourage Science Careers For
Women
NASA is collaborating with award-winning recording artist Mary
J. Blige to encourage young women to pursue exciting experiences
and career choices by studying science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM). A public service announcement featuring veteran
NASA space shuttle astronaut Leland Melvin and Blige debuts this
week on NASA TV and the agency's website.
NASA's Summer of Innovation (SoI) project and Blige's Foundation
for the Advancement of Women Now (FFAWN) have much in common. Both
show students the many possibilities available if they follow their
dreams and reach for the stars. The SoI project is part of the
President's Educate to Innovate Campaign. It started earlier this
summer to help keep middle school students engaged in fun and
stimulating STEM-related activities during the school break.
"Working with FFAWN is a rare opportunity to help spread the
STEM message into communities not always readily accessible to us,"
Melvin said. "Mary's presence can help NASA make the STEM message
more appealing to these communities and increase the pipeline of
underrepresented students going into these disciplines."
Mary J. Blige NASA Video Screen Grab
Working with the NASA Science, Engineering, Mathematics and
Aerospace Academy project at York College of the City University of
New York (CUNY), the joint effort is providing on-the-job training
for FFAWN high school participants. High school girls in the
program will be prepared to deliver NASA SoI content to middle
school students this summer at the New York City Housing Authority
Van Dyke Community Center and the Harlem Children's Zone Promise
Academy.
The FFAWN participants also will have the opportunity to support
the NASA Academy fall academic session at CUNY as student aides for
grades one through nine later this year.
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