After the crazy months of Fall, we had no other choice than to go even more crazy in December, to finish the year with a BANG. And that’s exactly what we did!
We started the month in Mexico, with more than 130 girls attending our 2-day g4g Day @Mexico “Goo extravaganza”, which involved polymer chemistry, sustainability, and more with Covestro. We then concluded our #STEM4Girls Festival in India with Covestro, with an event in Cuddalore and a week of events in Mumbai, involving more than 1200 girls (pfiou!). Mid-December, we headed to our neighbor country Luxembourg, for a new event with Amazon involving 50 girls, app-creating and race cars. Finally, on December 14th, we did something we never did before … Because of our global partner, Cisco, we were able to realise a g4g day in Andalucia in 8 cities at the same time, reaching 1000 girls in the region!
Read all about it below!
On December 3rd and 4th, our g4g Days @Mexico with Covestro, gathered more than 130 amazing and motivated girls! They were all coming from 6 different schools around the Santa Clara plant neighborhoods, with very limited resources and in risk of social exclusion. Our goal? Show them that Anything Is Possible and that girls and STEM make a great combination. Over two days, these girls explored everything linked to Polymer Chemistry, from slime to polymer worms, we can say we had fun with goo! We also learnt about electrical engineering when generating electricity from fruits, and enjoyed a wonderful thinking and writing session about sustainability (see those beautiful planes? That’s how we travelled during our Sustainable Trip around tomorrow’s world!). A massive thanks to our global partner, Covestro, the 30 volunteers who dedicated their day(s!) to teach the girls all the fun in science, as well as to the Covestro team in Mexico for being such wonderful role models to the girls!
If you remember well, in November, we had started the month launching our third #STEM4Girls Festival in India with Covestro, the ChandraMohan Foundation, the Nehru Science Centre and the ARCH Foundation. After amazing events in Noida, Dharampur and Ankleshwar in November, on December 5th, we were very excited to host this STEM festival in the city of Cuddalore for the first time ever. Together with our partners, we hosted hands-on workshops for more than 200 girls and their 20 teachers; what a day! Thank you all for coming and attending, we can't wait for the next events!
On December 13th, we had invited 50 girls from across Luxembourg to join our g4g Day with Amazon, to discover science and technology subjects in fun and inspiring ways, and connect to role-model leaders. The guest speakers of the day, Maria Ciolpan, Head of International Campaigns, Amazon Web Services, and Helder Velho, Director of Amazon Transportation Services, first welcomed the girls with engaging and inspiring speeches on how to fail fast and also look ahead at what innovation in sustainability could look like in their transportation sector. After customising their own labcoats, the girls then broke out into small groups to explore four hands-on workshops; coding while programming DeepRacer cars to drive around a physical car track with obstacles, creating their own mobile application with AppLab, discovering how sustainability plays a role in Amazon while calculating their own carbon emissions, and finally, exploring with chemistry by making their very own “polymer worms”. Thank you so much to the 25+ volunteers who dedicated their day, and a particular thanks to Herminie and Thomas for a wonderful collaboration!
Between December 9th and 14th, we had our last stop of our annual #STEM4Girls Festival, organized in India with our global partner Covestro, as well as the Chandra Mohan foundation, the Nehru Science Center and the Arch foundation. Over the course of six days, in Mumbai, we hosted hands-on workshops for more than 1000 girls from 20 different schools. What an experience! Thank you so much to all of them for coming … and thank you to the wonderful scientists who came to inspire them over these past few days! Dr Manasi Rajadhyaksha, Dr Kamakshi Bhate, Dr Nishigandha Naik, Acharya Donde Marg, Dr Sunali Khanna, Dr. Vidita Vaidya, Prof. Shubha Tole… Dearest India, we cannot wait for next year (and dear readers, come back in January to read our annual recap about this year’s festival!).
Finally, on December 14th, we did something we had never done before: 1 g4g Day in 8 cities at the same time! When our global partner, Cisco, approached us with this crazy idea a few weeks ago, we loved it immediately; reaching out to 1000 girls in 8 cities of the beautiful Andalucía? Tell us no more, we are in! So, on December 14, we hosted events in Almeria, Cordoba, Huelva, Granada, Jaen, Malaga, Cádiz and Sevilla… Through amazing and interactive workshops, girls discovered everything there is to know about the Internet, routers, 3D technology, coding and programming or even IoT. Thank you so much to all the volunteers and partners who made this day possible, and a special thanks to David, Magdalena and Irene for carrying this amazing project in Spain!
Check out some of our photos below!
And that’s how we concluded December and 2019! In January, we will regroup and plan ahead for an exciting 2020... Meanwhile, we leave you with this fun and cute video showing some of our favorite moments from 2019!
From all of us at greenlight for girls, we wish you a very happy end of the year and a marvelous 2020!
