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Why This Olympic Gold Medalist Wants Girls To Be “All Strength, No Sweat”
Imagine if an Olympic Gold Medalist, a Grammy-nominated singer, an actress, an entrepreneur and a fitness mega-influencer all joined forces to inspire today’s women and girls. Now imagine a slogan so powerful – All Strength, No Sweat – and a video so hypnotic it played on your phone for days. Secret Deodorant imagined exactly that…
How Research in Space Can Launch Girls’ Ideas
What if… …examining barley seeds in microgravity could help us grow food in space and improve crop growth back on the ground? …sending mice into orbit could teach us how to prevent human bone and muscle loss on Earth? …researching how cells grow in spaceflight could help patients on Earth living with Parkinson’s disease and…
Inspiring Young Activism on Day of the Girl
On Friday, October 11th, we will celebrate International Day of the Girl – an energy-infused day designated by the United Nations to “highlight and address the needs and challenges girls face, while promoting girls’ empowerment and the fulfillment of their human rights.” With posters from last month’s climate strike still in our living rooms, and the impassioned
How GoldieBlox is Making STEM Mentorship So. Much. Cooler.
“I’m watching the greatest YouTube series in…ever. This girl – she’s our age – got to meet the CEO of an ice-cream company AND a scientist making burgers of the future and then PICKED ONE to be her life-long mentor! It’s called #FastForwardGirls and you HAVE to see it.” Words that will be spoken by….
Meet Five 3M Finalists Shaping our Future…in Middle School
What would happen if we used robotics to heat and cool only the occupied areas of a building? Super smart way to reduce energy waste! What if a revolutionary train system could run solely on renewable energy? Um, transportation emissions would go way down! And what if we could reduce our need for antibiotics, predict wildfires before they…