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"Just imagine." That's how Shirley Malcom, head of Education and Human Resources at AAAS, ended her acceptance speech when she was awarded the
Public Welfare Medal, the Academy's most prestigious award. She said in her speech, "We have to help girls and boys of all racial and ethnic backgrounds imagine themselves as science and engineering faculty, as innovators, in industy and even within this august body; and we have to imagine them in those places as well."
AAAS has several programs to engage kids in science:
Science News for Kids on EurekAlert!
 This week's story is "How an Uninvited Bird Guest Fools its Hosts."
When a female Horsfield’s hawk-cuckoo lays an egg, she leaves it in the nest of other birds, where the chick will be raised by foster parents. Animals have many different strategies for survival, and the hawk-cuckoo chick’s isn’t particularly kind. It pushes the other baby birds out of the nest, so that it can receive all the attention from its foster parents.
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Past Science for Kids stories include:
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