CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WAND) - It is not often that fourth through eighth grade girls get the chance to learn about math and science from college students. But a program called SKATE for Girls, run by a student at the University of Illinois, helps kids do just that.

"SKATE for Girls stands for Solving Kinesthetically And Transforming Education, and basically the mission of the organization is to combine figure skating and math to make STEM more interesting to girls," said Mayumi Suzue-Pan, founder of SKATE for Girls."

SKATE for Girls sessions are held in two parts. The first is ice skating, where girls are paired up with college students to learn how to ice skate. They complete some form of math-based activity while on the ice.

"We would race and then they would time it on the stopwatch, and

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