Engage Girls in STEM: Let Them Learn From Failure
I've discovered three keys to building our pipeline of women innovators and changemakers. In my last post, I explored the first key: let girls break free of stereotypes. The second is to teach our girls to redefine and embrace failure. Studies show that many girls self-select...
Keys To Engaging Girls In STEM
Through my experience teaching at the university level, and what I myself have discovered in teaching kindergarten through 12th grade, I've identified three keys to building our pipeline of female creative leaders and innovators: help break them free from stereotypes, let them embrace failure, and...
Where Are All the Girls in Science?
Girls are gifted in science and math, but they're missing from fields that need their talents...
Instilling a Growth Mindset In Girls
At VentureLab, we encourage creative brainstorming and zeroing in on promising ideas. With our curriculum, girls learn to design and create a prototype, even if it is only drawn on paper. They learn to conduct research by asking friends and family their thoughts on the prototype. They...
Entrepreneurial Education Sparks Curiosity and Confidence In Girls
I have repeatedly observed remarkable core transformations in girls of all ages who take part in the entrepreneurial exercises of VentureLab. We are demonstrating that entrepreneurial education holds a key to sparking girls’ interest in engineering, computer science, and technology by… Making these subjects real...