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Hillary Nix, 13, of Baltimore, left, works on her solar-powered model car while Spacelink manager Lauren Bartelme assists Jada Ford, 12, of Baltimore at SciCamp for middle school girls at the Maryland Science Center.
Maryland Science Center SciGirls camper Amber Covington, 12, of Hamilton Middle School, wants to be a psychologist.
“I love to work with the environment where I live and I want to make it better,” she said.
Fighting traditional declining interest in math and science that most acutely affects middle school girls, the Maryland Science Center with the help of Honeywell International, Inc. launched its inaugural SciGirls Camp last week. It hosted 40 Baltimore middle school girls and will reconvene monthly throughout the school year.
“We try to keep girls interested in science … because science is a part of everything we do,” said Science Center President Van Reiner. “We need to get them excited and keep them excited. If this camp can influence even a small percentage of the girls, then I will consider it a success.”
Katie Stofer, 30, created SciGirls with several co-workers at the Science Center to provide opportunities and role models for young girls in science.
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Dolphin said:
"It's natural for dolphins to pair bond in their [wild] environment" What she did miss is that such pair-trio bonds are being formed by males born the same year in the same family. And these bonds are almost never replaceable. Means, if one of them dies or disappears some other way, there will be no replacement for his mate. It definitely does not happen by just dumping some dolphins together, even if they both are lonely.
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Khuram said:
Harry is the last Horcrux perhaps. The black stone ring in the 6th book had a crack on it after it bacame a horcrux, a crack evident on harry's forhead. Perhaps R.A.B is Regullus Black. Also, as the last chapter of the last book is called 'The Boy Who Died', we can guess that Harry, if he is a Horcrux, has to be destroyed in order for Voldemort to lose his immunity. Snape might turn out to be good, for there is evidence in the 6th book that Dumbledore had previously asked Snape to carry out a task which Snape didn't want to. What 'it' is is still speculated however, many believe the order was for Snape to avoid death himself by killing Dumbledore, meaning that Snape may be very important in the destruction of Voldemort. I'm studying English Literature at uni, it helps quite a lot.
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J.P. said:
I think that Harry will destroy 5 of the 6 horcruxes, I also think that Harry will be the 6th and final horcrux and he will have to die in order to kill voldemort once and for all
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Irfan Nabi said:
I think there will be a big battle against Voldemort.I think Harry will destroy all the horcruxes and make one of his own. I think h will have help from all the greatest wizards he knows about. I think Voldemort will die one of the great wizards will die and Harry will die. I think Dumbledore has a horcrux so he can come back from the dead and help Harry. I think some will make a statue of Harry because he killed Voledemort.
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Examiner Reader said:
Harry Potter is for people of all ages -- example, residents at Riderwood, in Silver Spring, Maryland (a retirement community) have their own Harry Potter blog.
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mwigarire syson tasha said:
i think harry will kill snape and voldemort after discovering many secrets about the dark world.
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Thank you it was helpful
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