At Cool Girls Science and Art Club, we are committed to doing our part in helping close the gender gap in tech. Did you know that there are fewer women graduating in Computer Science today than 30 years ago? It takes efforts on many fronts to change the stats. For Cool Girls it is helping…
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Cool Girls Science and Art Club was awarded EcoSTEM Kits from the Captain Planet Foundation. The kits include components to make wind turbines, solar arrays, and hydro power so that students can understand how renewable energy is created and optimized. Our Cool Girls in Longmont started with the exploring wind energy with the help our…
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During this past Fall semester, Cool Girls Science and Art Club explored the Dream Chaser at the Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC). The remotely operated, reusable space shuttle has been commissioned by NASA to service the International Space Station as a cargo ship and is now being considered for possibly carrying astronauts. SNC encourages the next…
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Keri Santos the founder of CodeWagon, a Boulder non-profit focused on inspiring the next generation of women coders, taught the Boulder Cool Girls how to code in Scratch using a Micro:Bit. Scratch is a block-based visual programming language created by MIT as an introductory programming language for children. Micro:Bit is a handheld micro-computer created by…
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Cool Girls and New Vista High School Science Students Team up for Science Experiments at Crest View! It’s May and that means it’s time for Boulder Cool Girls and New Vista High School Science students to team up and lead students at Crest View Elementary School through hands on experiments. The science experiments give the…
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Longmont Community Foundation “Share Your Story” Grant Winner! “A scientist creeps thru cattails in Longmont’s Quail Pond to find colorful invertebrates, thrilled to be an ecologist, an environmentalist and a Cool Girl. This is one way the multicultural Cool Girls Science and Art Club nurtures the next generation of community leaders in STEAM. Touring the Dream…
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Cool Girls hosted a booth at this years Chinese New Year Celebration on February 16th, 2019. This free event at Silver Creek High School is always a favorite for the whole family. At the Cool Girls booth, we had hundreds of children stop by and make windmills. Wind is the best renewable energy source around…
Read MoreSIXTH ANNUAL ROCKY MOUNTAIN STEAM FEST https://makerbolder.com/steam/maker/ Do you have something fascinating, wild, intricate, creative — FANTASTIC — that you want to share with the world? Then we want you to be one of our Awesome Exhibitors!! Join us for two days of hands-on learning and fun. Bring your invention, your product(s), your science experiment…
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