Motorola Inspires Girl Scouts with STEM Grant
Women in the math and science career fields in the U.S. are
still massively underrepresented. Girl Scouts and Motorola have teamed up to
change that! Earlier this year, the Motorola Solutions Foundation provided a
$10,000 grant towards local programming for STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,
and Math).
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| STEM Expo Interactive Activity |
This grant has been put to work with educational programming
such as our council’s STEM Expo. At the 4th annual expo, held on
October 24, attendees came out to enjoy a diverse range of interactive
demonstrations and robotics activities. The 2,200 people in attendance explored
physics with a hovercraft, engineering with a human hamster wheel and technology
with virtual reality 3D goggle. With these and many more interesting
activities, our goal was to bring STEM to life and help girls see themselves in
these fields.
Some of the STEM Expo presenters were our council’s own robotics team members. The Motorola grant supports these girl-only robotics groups, comprised of dedicated girls eager to learn more about math and science.
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| GENIUS Robotics Team at the STEM Expo |
Teams
such as GENIUS (Girls Exploring New Ideas Using Science), design and build
robots by themselves and compete all over the state. In fact, earlier this
year, the GENIUS team did so well in Atlanta’s FIRST Tech Challenge that they
were invited to compete in the Southern Regional competition in San Antonio,
Texas.
We are seeing more girls express an interest in exploring STEM
careers. With grants like this one, we will be able to continue to bring these
opportunities to our Greater Atlanta girls and spark an interest that will last
a lifetime.
