SocraticGadfly: I get e-mails – Exxon ready to indoctrinate young minds in Dallas

April 24, 2008

I get e-mails – Exxon ready to indoctrinate young minds in Dallas

ExxonMobil is using the “techwash” of former astronaut Sally Ride to bring the Sally Ride Science Festival to Southern Methodist University April 26:
While girls participate in two separate workshops, parents and educators will also attend a longer workshop on ways to support girls’ interests in math and science. In addition, the festival will have a street fair with hands-on science activities.

Will those science activities include teaching people things like:
• How to spill oil?
• How to conduct experiments on how many animals an oil spill can kill?
• How to count carbon dioxide up to 420 parts per million?
• How to measure minute but steadily increasing atmospheric temperature changes?

I’m sure the Exxon Math and Science Academy will offer more in follow-up courses.

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