Access Your Superpower and Make the Million Girls Moonshot a Reality Linda Kekelis and Teresa Drew We love starting the new year with a spotlight on mentoring. For this year’s National Mentoring campaign help us reach the Million Girls Moonshot. With the Million Girls Moonshot, STEM Next Opportunity Fund is…

Five Ideas to Take into 2023 Linda Kekelis and Teresa Drew We celebrate the incredible effort that made Computer Science Education Week 2022 a resounding success. What began as a one-hour coding challenge has expanded into a worldwide phenomenon with millions of kids taking part in Hour of Code in…

Bringing Joy and Inspiration Before you start your holiday shopping, I encourage you to reflect on the power of your choices. Marketing, stereotypes, and routines help shape our shopping lists and our imaginations. They may also limit what we introduce to girls. It’s not that we are trying to limit…

Five Big Ideas to Spark Family Engagement in STEM coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Ron Ottinger Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) can spark a curiosity in children that can inspire a lasting love of learning. …

Seven Fun and Family-friendly Ideas coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Teresa Drew Summer is coming. So is the search for ideas to support summer learning. With less structure and more time for self-directed play, summer is an ideal time to encourage children’s interests, confidence, and creativity. …

Dream Big and Reimagine the Possible with the Million Girls Moonshot Coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Teresa Drew Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2022 is one of our favorite days of the year. Girl Day is part of Engineers Week that celebrates how engineers make a difference in our…

coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Teresa Drew Before you start your holiday shopping we hope you take a moment to reflect on the power of your choices. As part of the Ready for Girls campaign, Lego partnered with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in the Media and surveyed parents…

Finding Our STEM Superpower with Family Engagement Coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Ron Ottinger The afterschool community has stepped up with its superpower in responding to the education, social, economic, and health challenges of the past year and half for different communities. …

Six Ideas for a Summer of STEM Coauthored by Linda Kekelis and Teresa Drew Summer is coming. So is the search for ideas to support summer learning. Let’s not let stereotypes hold us back from providing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) opportunities for girls. A new research brief by…