Computer-Aided Design: From Automobiles to Arteries
Computer-aided design, or CAD, is utilized in STEAM to bring ideas to life. Learn more about how women are using this engineering technology, including for medicine, packaging, and race cars!
Students Use STEM to Advance Climate Action at MISSion Innovation
MISSion Innovation, a 24-hour innovation marathon, is the latest service learning program from Pretty Brainy. The program is designed to bring young women together to innovate new solutions for a real-world problem, greenhouse gas emissions, with a real client.
Climate Action Challenge Statements
MISSion Innovation participants will collaborate Sept. 22-23 to address climate action challenges articulated by the City of Fort Collins, CO. Solutions will help the city advance its climate action plan and meet its 2050 goal for carbon neutrality. See the challenge statements here.
Young Engineers, Designers & Creatives Will Address Environmental Concerns
Fun is among the criteria for what works in education because my students tell me so. They tell their mothers, too, and the mothers say their daughters think a monthly or weekly Designathon is a good idea. Girls, here it is: 24 hours of Design Thinking begin Feb. 3 at 5 p.m. MST.
Why Wait for Adulthood? These Girls in STEM Are Philanthropists and Entrepreneurs Influencing the World Today
Most aren't old enough to drive, but these teens are building entrepreneurial cred today. One is forming an LLC around how to stop the public spread of germs.
