After two intense months for g4g, November was no different! From India to China, from Nanjing to Brussels, we were so thrilled to host so many events and meet so many wonderful g4g girls. How many do you wonder? 3,250…. Yep, you read that right… in November, we met more than 3000 g4g girls! How? We kicked-off our third #STEM4Girls Festival in India with Covestro, we hosted our first g4g Days at Antwerp (Belgium) and Nanjing (China) with Nokia, we attended fun events in the Community with Stanley Black & decker and the US Embassy in Brussels, and of course, we finished the month with a BANG while hosting our 10th g4g Day @Brussels!
Read all about it below!
In November, we started the months by kicking-off our third #STEM4Girls Festival in India, with Covestro, ChandraMohan Foundation, the Nehru Science Centre and the ARCH Foundation. Last year’s festival involved 3000 girls, 6 cities, workshops in 5 languages… This year? Let’s see!
On November 6th, we kicked-off our Festival in Noida with more than 800 girls joining us from 10 different schools over the course of three days! Together, we explored with polymer chemistry and putty, we had fun with biology while extracting our own DNA, and we learned about electricity and circuits with LED activities.
On November 9th, we were thrilled to be back for our annual g4g in the community in Towson, USA with Stanley Black & Decker. For the third annual SBD's International Girls Day event, we had the chance to meeting employee children for a morning of STEM discovery. Our most popular activity? Robots, of course!
On November 14th was the second stop of our #STEM4Girls Festival 2019 in India with Covestro. This time, we headed to Dharampur for three days of science fun! During these three days of STEM Festival, we were joined by 30 schools, more than 1000 schoolgirls and their 65 teachers. What a beautiful experience…! In addition to interacting with STEM and fun workshops, girls were also inspired by wonderful guest speakers. The words we will remember are the ones of Dr Krishna Rajput, a Zoology professor who opened her session saying - "I don't need a mic. Girls' voices can reach wherever it must". What a powerful statement for social change! "
On November 16th, we were very excited to host our first g4g Day @Nanjing, China, with our global partner Nokia. What a day! For this STEMtastic experience, we had invited 90 girls aged 11-15 from the local community to join us and were helped by 40 wonderful and dedicated volunteers. After an inspirational speech by Zhang Zhimin, the TC head of Nokia Nanjing, we dived into robotics with bristlebots, engineering with spaghetti towers, physics with chocolate, electrical engineering with fruits… We also had a special tour of the Nokia inventions and enjoyed getting to know the Nokia professionals better thanks to a career workshop.
Between November 18th and 21st, we hosted the third step in our #STEM4Girls Festival in India with Covestro and went to Ankleshwar in the state of Gujarat. During these four days of STEM Festival, we were joined by 15 schools, more than 800 schoolgirls and their 25 teachers. Wow! The girls had the opportunity to meet with inspiring role models, particularly from the Indian Space Research Organization (thank you so much to Hetal Pandiya, Dhruvi Bharwaad!) and the Education system (thank you Shehnaz Sheikh!), and experience fun and hands-on STEM workshops.
On November 20th, we had the great opportunity to co-organize a fun event with the US Embassy in Brussels. For one afternoon, we had invited 30 girls and women for an Inspiring Talk and Interactive Session with US Entrepreneur, Ashley M. Williams, CEO of the company RIZZARR. After an interview with Ashley, and a few questions from the audience, we had created a fun exercise for the girls, to develop their own inventive ideas for the future. Let's remember Ashley's beautiful words: "Whatever dreams you have, believe in them and in yourself"
Between November 21st and 22nd, our g4g Days @Antwerp with Nokia, gathered more than 200 girls from the local community. Our goal ? Show them that Anything Is Possible, and that girls and STEM make a great combination! From coding to statistics with chocolate, from discovering the cutting-edge technology Nokia is known for, to playing with green screens, these girls experienced fun interactive workshops while meeting STEM professionals and enjoying mentoring sessions with them.
Finally, on November 30th, we were thrilled to be back at the International School of Brussels for our 10th g4g Day @Brussels… 10 years! Joined by 300 girls aged 7 to 15, we had an amazing time together, exploring STEM in every aspect possible. We explored engineering, building towers with crazy materials, we baked cupcakes using polymer chemistry, we learnt about maths & stats thanks to M&M’s and Twister games, we built robots, we experienced with our senses and the chemistry behind it, we dived into snaptricity, and we met amazing and inspiring scientists like Grace Hopper, Hedy Lamarr, Maria Telkes or Stephanie Kwolek in our Passport to Invention activity. What a day!! This couldn’t have been possible without our partners and sponsors of the day, thank you so much to Stanley Black & Decker, Covestro and P&G. Thanks also to the amazing 70 volunteers who came and helped us bring to the girls such a fascinating day! Finally, thank you to our amazing photographer of the day Kaori, for capturing such beautiful smiles! … Dearest Brussels, we can’t wait for next year!
And that’s a wrap! November was incredibly exciting and fun, and December promises to be not anything less than amazing! In December, join us for 5 events, including our first g4g Day @Luxembourg with Amazon, a multi-city g4g Day @Andalusia (1 g4g Day = 8 cities = 1000 girls!), and of course, the Grand Finale of our #STEM4Girls Festival in India with a 6 day event in Mumbai!
