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Seaforth girl publishes article in youth magazine
The Huron Expositor • November 14, 2007 Page 23
Susan Hundertmark
The combination of playing clar-
inet in the Seaforth and District All -
Girls' Marching Band and belonging
to a Seaforth science club for girls
resulted in an 11 -year-old Seaforth
girl publishing a storyin a U.S.-
based magazine for girls.
Claire Van Doornik, a student at
St. James School, is now a pub-
lished writer after submitting an
article on sound in New Moon: The
Magazine for Girls and Their
Dreams, out of Duluth, MN.
While Claire is not planning to
become a professional writer, hav-
ing a byline in a magazine is "some-
thing I imagined would happen
someday," she says.
The opportunity came about when
she received an email from her sci-
ence club, an offshoot of the
Canadian Association of Girls in
Science (CAGIS), asking if someone
wanted to write a magazine article.
After a science club meeting on
the topic of sound, Claire decided to
research the topic further and take
on the challenge of writing an arti-
cle.
"I listen to music a lot and I play
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in a band," she says, adding that
sound seemed like a natural topic
to pursue.
Before her mom Sally even had a
chance to read it, Claire had
emailed the article to her science
club leader Ellen Whelan who
passed it on to the magazine.
Whelan, and Tanya Costello, both
of Seaforth, started a science club in
Seaforth for girls aged 8 to 12 close
to two years ago, and have been
meeting with their group on a
monthly basis since.
"The next thing I knew, we got an
email from these people at the mag-
azine that they accepted it and it
was going to be published," says
Sally.
Published in New Moon's issue
entitled "The Big Screen - Get
Plugged In," Claire's article was
written about how sound works
and called "Do you hear what I
hear?"
In it, she discusses how the reed
of a clarinet vibrates to make sound,
the strings of guitars vibrate and
the lips of someone playing a brass
instrument vibrate.
"Without vibration, there would
be no music," she says in her article,
which also included two sound
Susan Hundertmark photo
Claire Van Doornik, 11, of Seaforth recently published an article about sound in a
U.S.-based magazine called New Moon: The Magazine for Girls and their Dreams.
experiments to try.
Claire says she likes English, sci-
ence and music as subjects at school
and will probably try writing a fic-
tional story after being published in
non-fiction.
However, has far as planning a
future career, Claire says it will
probably involve cooking, music or
art.
"There are lots of options," she
says.
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