Yareni de la Cruz and Shylah Hernandez are interning with Cool Girls Science and Art Club this summer with the generous support of I Have a Dream and the Daniels Foundation. Yareni de la Cruz and Shylah Hernandez are both Boulder High students. The young women are learning what it takes to run a nonprofit…
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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…
Read MorePrecision Plumbing awarded Cool Girls Science and Art Club $1000. We are honored to receive the Hugs Grant. Precision Plumbing is not only an awesome plumbing, electrical and HVAC contractor in the Boulder area, they are also a huge supporter of our community. These funds help Cool Girls keep our commitment to never turn a…
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By Augusta Garrison When I was 9 years old my teacher wanted my class to write an essay on what we wanted to be when we grew up for a New York Daily news contest. My essay was chosen and then printed in the paper. I wrote that I wanted to be a veterinarian. I…
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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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In the summer of 2016, Cool Girls offered an entrepreneurship program for girls in grades 2-6. Boomtown was our sponsor for the program. The Leeds School of Business hosted the event and some of the mentors included founders and CEO’s of local tech companies in Boulder. The Daily Camera wrote up an article about event,…
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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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