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We Respect + Empower Girls as Thinkers, Problem-Solvers, Leaders + Innovators

For 18 years Pretty Brainy has created STEAM learning with a purpose. We now close the lab and shutter the studio, but this site remains an archive and a legacy. Read our final post and letter of thanks.

Our Thanks to You
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STEAM

STEM + ART = STEAM

Learn how we blend art + design with engineering + science

95%

Number of girls in Pretty Brainy who gained confidence in their ability to do science and math

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LEAD

A mentor will shift how a girl sees science, math, her abilities, and herself

STEAM Learning Girls Value and That Values Girls is Pretty Brainy's reason to be: learn more about our programming and outcomes
STEAM Learning Girls Value: watch our girls' leadership team in action with community members to uncover points of resistance to reducing CO2 emissions

Our Mission: Empower Girls to Gain STEAM — Science, Tech, Engineering, Art + Design, and Math.

We create STEAM learning girls value because it respects them as thinkers, problem-solvers, innovators, and leaders.

What Makes You Strong?
What Makes You Shine?

STEAM learning girls value and that values girls is at the heart of Dr. Judith Olson's talk.

As senior physicist and Head of Atomic Clocks at Infleqtion, Dr. Judith Olson has one of the best jobs in the universe.

Hear what she says about your girl-power strengths and what it takes to shine!

A Pretty Inspiring Conversation

When Volunteering Changes Your Life

In this segment of the OtterCares Podcast, Pretty Brainy mentor and volunteer, Cass Santoro, and Pretty Brainy founder, Heidi Olinger, come together to talk about Cass’s mentoring girls in STEAM and how the experience changed the course of her career.

Be Inspired
Our wonderful donors include the following:

Deaver Phoenix Foundation

Oracle Netsuite Social Impact
Infleqtion, a global quantum technology company

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