7News Article + Video: Building wind turbines gives middle school girls hands-on STEM learning

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Written By Monica Nichols

DUMFRIES, Va. (7News) — 7News was there on Tuesday when a group of girls at Potomac Middle School in Dumfries finalized the wind turbines they were building as part of an after-school program on green energy.

The seven-week-long program, “Girl Power—Intro to Green Energy”, was put together by a nonprofit group called Pink Space Theory with the support of a $7,500 grant from Dominion Energy.

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