UMaine Hosting ‘Adventure Girls’ Activity
Contact: Amie Dick, (201) 415-0933 or amie.dick@umit.maine.edu
The Bangor-based “Adventure Girls” program for girls in grades 2-6, created by the nonprofit advocacy group Hardy Girls Healthy Women (HGHW) in Waterville, is accepting registrations for one of its upcoming activities to be held in Deering Hall at UMaine on Jan. 15 from 1-3 p.m., a presentation and bug collection display by Maine Department of Agriculture entomologist Kathy Murray.
Registration and program information is available by contacting College of Education and Human Development associate research professor Mary Madden, an HGHW board member, at 581-2414 or Amie Dick at (201) 415-0933.
Adventure Girls gives girls the opportunity to meet once a month with women who are defying gender stereotypes and challenging notions of what a girl or woman “should” do or be, according to the organization. Adventure Girls brings girls together with college mentors and women facilitators to learn how mountaineers, race car drivers, boat captains, and other daring women chose to do what they do and how they’ve found the courage to follow their dreams.