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Spring volunteer opportunities!
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An Appeal to You
If our mission to broaden
the access of science and engineering to girls rings true to you, we
invite you to consider Science Club for Girls as a partner and make a
commitment to support our work.
GIVE
$25: Materials for three girls for the Circuits and Magnets curriculum
$100: Allows one Junior Mentor to participate in the C.E.L.L.S. (career exploration, leadership and life skills) program
$250:Allows one Boston student to attend vacation week program for free
Make a gift online
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Science Club for Girls
PO Box 390544
Cambridge, MA 02139
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ADVOCATE
If you have limited time, but still want to contribute both time and treasure, please consider joining our Ambassador (donor-advocate) program. Send us an email for more information
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Dear friend,
Happy International Women's Day! This year's theme is, "Equal rights, equal opportunity: Progress for All" and we have contributed to Blog for IWD on this topic. Science, technology, engineering and maths ARE the last frontier for equity, after all! Read it here Our founding board member, Shirby Stewart-Best, discusses the progress her daughter Mykaliah has made. Mykaliah was active in Science Club for Girls from kindergarten to 9th grade and will be attending UMass Boston this fall. Her biology major was so important to her. She was recruited for basketball,
but she would not even consider
schools that had no science majors. Just imagine, she is still thinking about science as a senior. The
impact was great, so we are talking 10 years of thinking about science
for her major. You cannot image how it feels to involved in a project
that impacts girls that are underrepresented.
- WE NEED YOUR VOTE!! With the click of your mouse, vote for our bold idea to create a cool-geek hangout for girls and teens, with a storefront for tinkerers, that will engender sisterhood as well as a source of revenue, while building science literacy. We'll get $250K if we're one of the top two votes. We jumped from the 200's to the 90's in a week. Vote here, and read more to spread the word. Voting ends the end of the March.
- We challenge you to give a gift in honor of someone on whose shoulders you stand, male or female, to benefit the next generation through Science Club for Girls. Give online
- Or, give a gift in the name of your younger self. Over a dozen women with diverse backgrounds and experiences in science, engineering and technology are writing inspirational Letters to My Young Self this month to impart advice and wisdom, to share hopes and fears. Please share with your daughters and nieces and other women and their networks. We can all benefit from their reflections.
Thank you for investing in the girls and young women! Thank you for honoring our collective history.
 Sincerely, Connie Chow
Executive Director
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New this Semester! Read about the many new collaborations we have just this winter!
We are providing a 10-week science component for the "FaB" Factor, aprogram of the Diver sity Initiative of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts. About 20 girls in elementary school are participating at the Orchard Gardens Community Center. We are grateful to the National Council of Negro Women--Greater Boston section for their generous support of this program.
Boston University and Boston Academy students are mentoring 12 5/6th graders at the Morse School in Cambridge this semester. We're hoping to have a full-sized program at Morse next year! Thanks to Cynthia Brossman at BU and Ms. Jennifer Schnabel for their efforts in recruitment.
Aisling O'Connor, professor of chemistry at Fitchburg State and a mentor-scientist at Esperanza Academy last
semester, has recruited two of her students to run a club at the Boys and Girls Club of North Central Mass. BGCNCMA Executive Director Donata Martin obtained funding from the Ronald McDonald Foundation to provide the
materials for the Crystals and Chemistry club and a stipend for our Junior Mentor.
 Led by professor Connie Bauman, students in the Sports Medicine course at Wellesley College is implementing a curriculum for 6-8th grade girls at our Myrtle site. They have already embarked on a field trip to Reebok to see how sports shoes are designed, got an electromyograph and a copy of their own force-plate results.
Following the success of the April Vacation Week program last year that was sponsored by Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Mass Promise Fellow Sonal Dhingra worked with Cambridge King Community School program director Catherine Park and program manager Roz Shoy to design a program supporting 25 students from the King and Amigos schools for a February vacation week program this year. A few more girls think that Science Rocks! Thanks to the mentors and the field trip hosts, and of course our partners. More about the programAnd oh, these seem so far away now...
Our first Show Me the Science fair in Lawrence was held on January 21st. The  80+ students at the Leonard Middle School were captivated. No wonder. The science teachers said they have very little equipment and space in their classrooms, so hands-on science and engineering was truly a new experience! Thanks to all the exhibitors from EMC, UMass Lowell, General Mills, Raytheon, Mass Academy of Sciences. More We decided to have one grand volunteer training this term (end of January), and was it crowded! But what great energy! More than 90 new and veteran volunteers got to know each other and 35 of our Junior Mentors, tried out the curriculum, and we unveiled our new "Mentor Rubric". Thanks to all my staff and the veteran volunteers for planning and facilitating such a wonderful event!Thank you so much to Lesley University for donating their space for our training. We will definitely be needing a bigger space next fall! |
Comings & Goings
We are reluctant to say goodbye to Stephanie Lemnios, program manager at our Myrtle Baptist Church site for the past two and half years. She has finally decided to join her husband, Zachary, in Washington D.C. During Stephanie's tenure, she increased enrollment and attendance by over 50%, and volunteer retention is at an all-time high. She also spearheaded the creation of the Show Me the Science fest and the Vacation Week program. She established solid ties between the Myrtle site and Wellesley and Lasell Colleges. We have no doubt that, having found her passion through her employ at SCFG, Stephanie will continue to make significant impact on the lives of girls through STEM. Stephanie, we'll miss you! Best of luck!
Karen O'Neill joined us as site manager for the Cambridgeport School last fall. Karen was a mentor-scientist with SCFG the year before. Karen is an engineer by training, with a masters degree in community education. She will oversee the Myrtle program for the remainder of the semester.
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Major supporters
Amelia
Peabody Foundation, Dolphin Trust, Boston Scientific Foundation, Abbott Fund, Motorola Innovation
Generation Fund, Procter & Gamble,
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, United Way:
Today's Girls...Tomorrow's Leaders, Anna
B. Stearns Foundation,Biogen Idec Foundation, Genzyme Corporation, Novartis, 3M, Citizens Bank, Medtronic, Science
House, Omega Natural Sciences, Millipore Foundation
Thank you!!
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