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2009  is the Year of ...
SCIENCE ∗ ASTRONOMY ∗ THE GORILLA ∗
CLIMATE CHANGE &

The DARWIN & LINCOLN BICENTENNIALS
Winter 2009
Bird's Eye View
More shout outs!
We're 15 years old!
Leadership forum
We're in the Top 40...
Special Sponsors
Thank you for these brilliant  and unique ways of giving!

A friendraising breakfast hosted by Novartis, with Beth Nicklas from MLSC as speaker. 

Proceeds of the annual silent auction from the  Wellesley Women's Business Network.

Items from our wish list as well as cash from the staff of Union of Concerned Scientists as part of their holiday giving (for a second year).

Paying it Forward tribute from the Mentoring Program of HBA Boston

Ticket proceeds from Xconomy Boston's Battle of the Tech Bands.
Read  or see video footage.

Special thanks to Kristen Graf, Leslie Mahoney, Bob Burderi, Linda Patrick, Joanne Kamens, Jeff Lockwood, Cheryl Wheeler, Lauren Silverman and others for
making all this possible.
More shout outs!
Cole: Endosymbiosis
Thanks to Dr. Hunter Cole for giving us a wonderful 15th birthday gift--the rights to use her whimsical painting for our T-shirts! It's based on endosymbiosis. How cool is that??!! Coming in the spring!

Thanks, always, to all our mentor-scientists, speakers and field trip hosts who inspire our girls! And of course to Dr. Jenny Tam who help us arrange our field trips!

Special thanks to Rocket Team mentors Ariane Chepko and Anuja Mahashabde for leading the largest team ever-24 girls!!

Thanks to Adrian Defante and Victoria Albraira for helping us design and deliver not one but two 4-hr volunteer training sessions this spring.


Thanks to Wendy Wong, a former volunteer, for sponsoring our free Constant Contact account.

Thanks to Kristen McCormack, Bob Nessen, Rick Rawlins, Peter Morrisey for sending us and supervising the wonderful students listed below:

BU MBA candidates Annie, Taline and Anastasia for developing a wonderful financial tool so we can create better plans for our personnel and operations!


Denisse R. and Jillian S, also MBA candidates from BU, for developing an individual donor plan for us. It'll definitely come in handy!

Lauren and Chris from AIB/Lesley for designing a beautiful brochure for us, and to Carol and Kim from BU's PRLab for helping with interviews and copy!


Joe S. Derek D. & Jared B. for creating a wonderful video that captured the spirit of SCFG!
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Sorry if we left anyone out. Please send us a friendly reminder and we'll put it in the next newsletter.
Catalyst09 Dear friend,,

I want to share a secret. Science Club for Girls has created a desire in me to clone myself. Let me tell you why. One Saturday last December, I was committed to my choral rehearsal, while I also wished I could be at the Rocket Team's launch at MIT (pix), or the semester-end Leadership Forum at Lasell College (more). The Tuesday prior, I had to decide between attending Science Fest at the King Open School in Cambridge, or the wrap-up of our Citizen School/McCormack program. (An easier decision because I already saw the Boston girls WOW their audience with their Magic Show and Crime Scene Analysis the night before).

After all, we had MORE THAN 400 participants in 38 clubs and programs at 10 locations last semester! And from the what I saw at the Amigos site last week, reports that girls are not only returning but bringing their friends, and a successful recruitment of additional media team members, I'm going to have to clone my staff and volunteers as well, such a committed and talented lot!

So please, stop us from experimenting on ourselves. Bring a friend and camera to visit a club or to attend our 15th Anniversary event, and send us your impressions. Let your words, not ours, bear the stronger witness about the joy and confidence that our girls experience through our programs. And if you're willing, do couple your words with a Cause on Facebook, create a fundraising page on Firstgiving, or volunteer with us. Thanks to all of you who have already shown your support, time and again! (See sidebar and this article)

Gratefully (for I have the best job in the world),
Connie

P.S. Don't forget to share our awesome video on YouTube. Go to page
P.P.S. Do check out the list of Community Events.
CatalystCelebrate our 15th birthday with us!
May 26, 5:30 pm. Broad Institute, Cambridge


Catalyst09Our 15th Anniversary coincides with the Year of Science, as well as Darwin and Lincoln's Bicentennials. It is a wonderful time to reaffirm that discovery and invention should be celebrated, and to reiterate the fundamental principles espoused by these two transformative thinkers: that these joyful pursuits are universal, can be pursued by all, and their application should benefit all equally.

We will also be honoring the role that Dean Evelyn Hammonds of Harvard College, and Dr. Larisa Schelkin of the Diversity and Outreach in Mathematics and Engineering (DOME) Foundation have played as Catalysts in promoting access and equity in STEM.Catalyst09

Thanks to Novartis for being a major sponsor.

Look for details of our online auction in a month Event details
Lasell Team Building and Leadership Forum at Lasell College
GeocacheIt was a wonderful end to the fall semester for the almost 40 girls who attended this event .One 5th grader and her friend delivered a constant stream of rave reviews through their 30 minute ride home about the balloon races and live turtles. A third grader was surprised and delighted that she could visit a college campus.

High school girls were treated to phenomenal presentations on leadership, interviewing for a first job or for college from human resource directors to college students to SCFG staff to college prep consultants.  Photos and more about the day
Virgin Cause Revolution We're in the Top 40...
in the Virgin America "What's Your Revolution" contest, thanks to  all of you who demonstrated that Science Club for Girls is a CAUSE YOU CARE ABOUT by responding enthusiastically.

Thanks to parent Karen Brennan for spearheading this effort! It has brought us a lot of exposure, and we've been humbled by the many wonderful, spontaneous comments we received. My favourite is, "This program has been an eye opener for my daughter and my kitchen will never be the same."  Read other comments...
Middle School Junior Assistants
WE ARE THE FUTURE!
A fabulous group of Junior Assistants at one of our Cambridge sites!
Happy Women's History Month and International Women's Day!!
(Do you know which day it is?)


Connie Chow, Executive Director
P.O. Box 390544
Cambridge, MA 02139
[email protected]
 EventsCommunity events of interest
ONGOING: The Saturday Thing, MIT.  All ages come together to design and build in a playful environment  more
Sign up to join the Boston hub of the Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science website
March 4-8th. International Women's Day Film Festival. details
March 6th, 7:30 - 9:30 am.
International Woman's Day Breakfast: Who Owns Your Food & Water Globally & Locally? details
March 7th. Boston FIRST, MA Regional Robotics Competition details
March 20th. Women's Health Conference "Getting Healthy, Staying Healthy: Knowledge is Everything" details
April 4th, 9 am & 10:45 am: Slime and Flubber. Science on Saturday at Lincoln Labs details
April 25 - May 3rd: Cambridge Science Festival sign up for updates