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"Math and science have long been male-dominant fields, but\u00A018-year-old Robin Johnson is looking to change that\u2014and in a very fashionable way. Enter: Math@Work, the high school senior&amp;#39;s new video\u00A0series with Scholastic.\n\n&amp;quot;Fashion has always been something I&amp;#39;ve been obsessed with\u2014in addition to my pre-med aspirations,&amp;quot; Robin explains. &amp;quot;I go to fashion shows and I&amp;#39;m fascinated by how people dress. I even wrote about fashion in one of my college essays! It&amp;#39;s a very big part of my life, especially living in New York. Because I also have math-oriented thinking, I started to see math in what I was wearing.&amp;quot;\n\nAnd so her wheels started turning: Wouldn&amp;#39;t it be cool if there was a way to incorporate fashion into math lessons, particularly for girls who shy away from the sciences?\n\n&amp;quot;I wanted to show that even if you want to do something that&amp;#39;s not in the science field, it doesn&amp;#39;t mean those skills aren&amp;#39;t important,&amp;quot; she says. &amp;quot;People think about fashion as being art, and that art can&amp;#39;t coexist with science or math. I wanted to bridge that gap.&amp;quot;\n\nAnd so the idea of a web series was born. Through her mom, a lobbyist for the CFDA, Robin was put in touch with Tim Gunn, who\u00A0eagerly\u00A0agreed to host.\u00A0Then designer\u00A0Diane von Furstenberg committed to appear, and Scholastic signed on to produce.\u00A0Suddenly Robin&amp;#39;s dream was pretty much realized: Her\u00A0series,\u00A0targeted to middle schoolers, will now\u00A0be shown in classrooms across the country.\n\nWhile the premiere episode tackles math in the fashion space (and stars Robin and two other style-obsessed students, alongside Gunn and DVF), future episodes will apply mathematics to various other fields. &amp;quot;I want this to go beyond kids being like, &amp;#39;Oh yeah, I watched that video in class,&amp;#39;&amp;quot; says Robin. &amp;quot;I want to see a rise in students, particularly girls, really getting into math and being excited about it.&amp;quot;\n\nCheck out Diane von Furstenberg and Tim Gunn&amp;#39;s Math@Work fashion episode below!\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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