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The gender gap in science and math is shrinking, but the number of boys still outnumbers girls at engineering colleges and universities around the country. Some believe the reason for that discrepancy is not so much the weight of tradition, but the tedium of classroom learning. A program based in San Francisco aims to change that, by taking high school girls outside of the four walls and placing them in the open air on a tall ship's deck. After six weeks learning about such topics as oceanography, multi-ethnic studies, mathematics as applied to navigation, and the basics of sailing, the girls travel to the Caribbean Sea to board a 120-foot long schooner for a six-week voyage of exploration and experimentation. KALW News senior producer Ben Trefny reports on the Tall Ship Semester for Girls.
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Originally aired on KALW, 91.7 FM in San Francisco, on October 23, 2005.
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