​Spring 2020: STEAM Girls Goes Virtual
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Due to events surrounding COVID-19, we were unable hold our regular STEAM Girls after-school program. However, thanks to platforms such as Zoom and YouTube (Check out our STEAM Girls channel!), we found fun ways to conduct activities remotely. 

Here's a recap of some of the skills we learned:
Week 1: We learned how to draw flowers using math and how to make an 'I miss you' card using coding
Week 2: We baked healthy banana treats,  created lava lamps using chemistry, and mastered 3 important Python skills
Week 3: We explored examples of infinity in nature and programmed animated stories with Scratch
Week 4: We made an interactive guessing game using Python, erupted volcanoes using Earth chemistry, and learned about nutrition while making delicious desserts

Be sure to look through the gallery to see some of the projects the STEAM Girls created!

Spring 2020 Project Gallery

Most Recent Program: Weekly After School Program, Spring

2020


We are extremely appreciative of the Fund for Innovation Grant, Professor Noah Graham, Gail Borden, and Lisa LaRose for supporting STEAM Girls! Without them, we would not be able to offer FREE sessions in the topics listed in the attached image. And of course, without all your interest, support, and participation, we would not be here for our fourth year!


Deadline to sign-up: Friday, 02/21 at 11:59pm
Ages: 5 to 18 year old, participants will be grouped by age range
Class sizes: Maximum of 6 participants, first come, first serve
Dates: Wednesday or Thursday, weekly from 04/01 - 04/29 or 04/02 - 04/30
Time: 3:15 to 4:30pm, we will be there at 3pm and your daughter is welcome to arrive at that time
Cost: FREE!
Subjects: Listed on the poster
Location: Hannaford Career Center located at 51 Charles Ave, Middlebury, VT 05753
Sign-up: below!

Previous Programs:

One-on-One Sessions Fall 2019:
Weekly After School Programs Spring 2018:
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​Week 1 - Scratch.mit.edu (a website created by MIT to teach young children coding concepts and coding by dragging blocks)
​Week 2 - Minecraft (solve Minecraft puzzles by creating code from blocks)
​Week 3 - Lego Mindstorms Robotics (we coded robots to go through a maze, click on "learn to program" if interested in the programming software
​Week 4 & 5 - Tinkercad (an online platform for 3D designing) and 3D printing (thank you very much to the Hannaford Career Centre for allowing us to use their 3d printer! specifically Nick Scott, Dana Callahan, and Dana Peterson)
​     - The link contains all the designs created during this program
​     - Click on a design, then "sign up to copy" if your daughter would like to                 tinker with a design
​Week 6 - Environmental Science (for Earth Day)/Energy: video one, video two
Week 7 - Chemistry: Matter, Atom, experiment
​Week 8 - Codester Turtle Drawing (complete challenges to get the turtle from Point A to Point B by dragging coding blocks or typing code), the structure of DNA through candy
Weekly After School Programs Spring 2019:
A Pop-Up was offered in November 2017:
Week-Long Summer Camps were offered in Summer 2016, Summer 2017, and Summer 2018. Some of the previously offered classes were:
​LilyPad Arduino
Girls learned about electronics, circuitry and programming using LilyPad Arduino technology. Each camper crafted her own project to take home, creating amazing wearable technology, musical boxes, interactive temperature censors, and much more!
Lego Robotics
Using Lego ​Mindstorms sets, campers learned to assemble and program robots to preform real tasks. Our robots did everything from distributing cookies, to modeling the newest wearable tech, to preforming intricate dance routines alongside our very enthusiastic gymnasts.
Programming with Processing
Our campers harnessed the power of Processing to create amazing interactive generative art and some sweet 2-D Pong games, all while learning the basics of programming in Java and mastering core concepts such as variables, loops, and conditionals. ​