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Sara Camilli

Hands-on Learning in STEM: Why is it so important?

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Like many other elementary-age students, boxed science kits were a staple of my childhood. From growing sugar crystals to making glow-in-the-dark slime, I spent many an afternoon stirring concoctions and …

SaraC CompEssay2Final

https://blog.richmond.edu/fyswns10/files/2015/09/Comparative-Essay-2-Revised-new-final-PDF.docx

Gaming and the Entanglement of Biology and Background (Camilli)

“Wait, you play World of Warcraft? And you’re a girl? But you look so… normal.”
I have had this conversation, and many variations of it, countless times over the past several years. Inherent in this question are a number of preheld notions and …

Different Ways of Thinking (Camilli Blog 4)

I distinctly remember the first time I sat down to take an official SAT test. Water bottle and snack on the floor next to me, calculator under my chair, four perfectly sharpened pencils sitting neatly at the top of my desk. In all the superficial ways,…