Program gets female students into science

As a mentor in program, he led dozens of middle school girls in the past six months on a journey of ecological research and practice.

After months of study at the Miyun Science Camp in Beijing and numerous discussions and experiments after school and during holidays, they finally got to toll out their project in Guang'an.

While carrying out research at a sewage plant in Miyun, Qin Ming, a high school freshman from Chengdu Tianfu High School, encountered a foam discharge outlet.

"The textbook says 'black and odorous water bodies have insufficient dissolved oxygen', but seeing the sensor values drop below the critical line in person is a completely different shock," she said.

Beijing middle school student Bai Yunhui vividly recalled her experiments at the Baihe River Wetland Park.

"We used a turbidity meter to differentiate between blue-green algae and silt, realizing that treatment requires more than just filtration; comprehensive biological and chemical controls are needed," Bai said.