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    Reported by: Katrina Irwin

    Friday, Nov 6, 2009 @07:39am EST

    It's a green future for some middle school students in the Rochester City School District.

    They're taking part in a program that teaches young girls the science behind going green


    8th grader Bertha Martinez says, "I want to know if they can ever make gas that won't pollute our earth."

    It's a program called science stars. The idea is to get young girls interested in science.

    About 65 middle school girls from three different schools in the rochester district, are solving different environmental problems.


    April Luehmann of the U of R Warner School of Education says, "they're studying how can we shrink our ecological footprint. How can we make the world more green and care about our environment. So they are studying the science behind that."

    This group is trying to figure out which fruits produce the most ethanol. It's an alternative fuel that can replace gasoline to power cars.  "We're producing ethanol with fruits yeast and water basically we mix it all together and trying it with different fruits," says Martinez. 

    Masters students at the U of R's Warner School of Education are the teachers in this after school program.

    They hope the students take these lessons out of the classroom too. LaToya Dunbar, a Masters Student at the Warner School says, "they make comments, oh i don't do that, they get that's important but i think that they get over time they are seeing it."

    9th grader, Astrad Coffie says, "it helps me learn about what i learn and live in environment and i can pair those things together so I can have my grades right."

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