STEM Like a Girl is honored to have some pretty impressive women leading our program. As a nonprofit organization, our board members volunteer their time and skills to shape and grow STEM Like a Girl into an organization that has served almost 200 girls in less than 2 years. This Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Andrea Pretorian, a woman who is working in the relatively new field of blockchain and cryptocurrency with BitIRA. You’ve probably heard of Bitcoin but have you thought about the math involved in managing and investing this type of currency? Read on to Read more…
March is Women’s History Month so for today’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series, we are sharing a recent post from our friends at A Mighty Girl. We agree that girls can’t become what they don’t see which is why we love the STEM Mentor Panel we offer at our Parent-Daughter Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features the women from NASA’s newest class of astronauts. In 2017, NASA announced the twelve candidates that were chosen to undergo a rigorous two year training to become astronauts. And of those twelve, FIVE women were selected for this honor! But first let’s Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Christina Cobb, a Portland local and one of our STEM Like a Girl volunteers. Read on to hear how she became interested in chemistry and biology and how she’s studying gut microbes and kombucha while in the process of applying to medical Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Jane Goodall, the world’s expert on chimpanzees. If you love animals and wonder how that relates to STEM, then read on to learn how Goodall turned her passion into a career that has taught so many about animal behaviors and conservation. Jane Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in the world to go into outer space. Ochoa served her first of four missions in 1993 on board the shuttle Discovery where she studied the ozone and conducted early research on climate change. Ochoa received Read more…
This week’s Wednesday’s Women in STEM Series features Gwynne Shotwell, the President and Chief Operating Officer of SpaceX. Read on to see how she turned her engineering background into a career in business, becoming the 70th most powerful woman in the world according to Forbes. It all started when she Read more…
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 ability to do anything she wants. Buck grew up in 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 STEM. The women had broad backgrounds and career paths including: Read more…