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Sunday, February 13, 2011

Girl Scientists Club Chapter 6

The girls spent the next three days learning the fundamentals of writing HTML code from Emily's mother.

"I'll set up the skeleton of the site for you," Emily's mother had said. "But you'll have to put in all the content, okay?"

Emily's mother, Marian, had her own domain name, Volcano Seven, and set up a folder for the Girl Scientists club's magazine, so the URL was:
http://volcanoseven.com/GirlScientistMagazine/index.html

Marian was a fan of the writing of the famous French aviation writer, Antoine de Saint Exupery, and one of his most famous books was The Wind, the Sand and the Stars.

She decided to make a "riff" on this title, and put a navigation bar on the site, with topics: The Waves, The Wind, The Sand, and The Stars.

(Waves) Oceanography for Trelane
(Wind) Atmospheric sciences for everybody
(Sand) Earth sciences, in particular paleontology, for Emily
(Stars) Space sciences for Amber

"You guys really shouldn't focus on just your own speciality," she explained. "Why not learn all the sciences?"

"Why not?" Amber had said.

Now, they had work to do. Each girl had promised to write articles or at the very least, word lists for each of their favorite subjects.

Those would be soon to come.

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