This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Linda Brown Buck, a biologist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2004. Read on to see why she credits her parents’ support, who told her she had the Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features the STEM Mentors from our October Parent-Daughter Workshop. These women volunteered their time to help lead activities, guide participants through Design Challenges, and speak to the girls about their backgrounds and experiences in Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Carolyn Ritterson Lew, a research analyst who uses her degree in biochemistry in a nontraditional job. Read on to see what “annoys” Lew when she tells people she is a biochemist! Read more…
In 2011, the United Nations declared October 11th to be International Day of the Girl. The mission is to “to help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls’ lives, providing an opportunity for them to show leadership and reach their Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features another new member of STEM Like a Girl’s Board of Directors, Molly Lebowitz. We are excited to have Molly’s experience in both engineering and business, as well as her passion for empowering Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics in 55 years. Just yesterday, Dr. Donna Strickland became just the third woman to be awarded this honor. Strickland was born in Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features STEM Like a Girl’s newest member of our Board of Directors, Janel Hull. We are excited to welcome Janel to our team and love her passion for supporting girls and women of Read more…
The September STEM Like a Girl Challenge of the Month is a sweet one! This month we explore how crystals form by making your own Candy Crystal Lollipops. Background A crystal is a solid material whose atoms, molecules, or Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Portland local Tassia Owen, a Senior Communications Specialist and Science Writer for NASA. Read on to see how she combines her background in English, science, and teaching into a career she loves! Read more…
Sometimes referred to as the mother of the internet, this week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Radia Perlman, a computer scientist who’s work helped make today’s internet possible. Radia Perlman grew up in New Jersey and was the daughter Read more…