Summer is our favorite time of year, because it means camp! Not only do we get to host seven weeks of STEM fun at the Girlstart STEM Center in Austin, Texas, but we also have nine weeks of travel camp at 21 different locations across the country.
Our travel camp is delivered by our amazing traveling STEM CREW (Creative, Resourceful, Empowered Women), composed of small teams of 27 fabulous female role models. Girlstart’s STEM CREW make STEM fun, meaningful, and relevant for our campers and empower them to be brave, creative, and curious! Each week, our Girlstart Galaxy Summer Camp is put on for new groups of campers in multiple locations—from Texas towns such as Houston, Mission, Kyle, McAllen, San Antonio, Irving, Dallas, Buda, Bryan, Garland, and Grand Prairie to the reaches of Elgin, IL, St. Louis, MO, Sunnyvale, CA, Boston, MA, and Bellevue, WA.
As Girlstart takes a tour through the U.S. this summer, our Girlstart campers are taking a trip out of this world to explore the wonders of space. Girls discover what it takes to design and launch a satellite, live and work on the International Space Station, develop a shock absorbing system to protect astronauts as they land on the moon, and more. Campers channel their inner botanist as they create a device to grow vegetables in space, engineer a tool to take samples on other planets, and how to call Earth in this out-of-this-world camp. Additionally, girls learn about Ozobots, small line-following robots, and how to program them with both visual color-coded commands and online coding. The girls create their own unique rover map for their Ozobot Evo “rover” to travel through, following commands as it collects moon rock samples on a foreign planet.
We still have three weeks of our Girlstart Galaxy camp left and we’re beyond grateful for our travel STEM CREW and the opportunity to bring fun science to new locations! Keep your eye on the sky—one day one of our campers might be there!
