Girlstart: Shoot for the Stars

This week at Girlstart, our girls reflected on the knowledge they gained from this semester. Groups reviewed the various careers that they had learned about – landfill and pipeline engineers, soil scientists, and more! The students then wrote a letter to their future selves. It was exciting to hear girls discuss the wide variety of interesting, challenging, and exciting careers which they envisioned attaining in the future. In their letters, girls included steps they need to take and how they would know when they have reached their goal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finally, girls decorated shooting stars. These stars represented the knowledge that students will use to succeed. Because success looks different to every girl, they defined success for themselves in the middle of their stars. In the arms, they wrote about the knowledge they will need to acquire on their way to success. Finally, each girl wrote down a takeaway from the semester. At Girlstart, we know that successful women do not become successful by accident; they plan carefully, work hard, embrace challenges, and succeed on purpose! Girlstart students are gaining the goal-setting and planning skills they will need to succeed in middle school, high school, college, grad school, and beyond!