On May 23rd, 2021, the All Girls STEM Society hosted their first-ever Magic of Mentorship Panel in collaboration with Athena, a San Diego-based group that advocates for women in STEM. We’re so thankful to Athena for connecting over 30 girls with three amazing mentors: Taylor Bruni, who works for Oracle in a software sales capacity, Farzaneh Orak who works as a software engineer at the Costar Group and Ida Khodami who is a partner at Two Bear Capital. In addition, AGSS Founder and current college student Veronica Tang (Majoring in Computer Science and English) and recent graduate Rachel Hong (Majored in Computer Science) were kind enough to come back to talk to girls about their high school and college experiences.
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On April 25th, 2021, the All Girls STEM Society hosted its annual All Girls Math Tournament, which has been held in some form every year since our organization’s founding in 2014. By providing a girls-only math competition for over 100 girls in grades 3-8, our organization aims to create an environment where girls feel comfortable trying their best to solve problems, which often can be difficult in other math competitions which are typically dominated by men.
Nemo loves his home in the Great Barrier Reef, but unfortunately it is in danger due to climate change! Thankfully, on March 28’s Marine Biology Workshop, led by Sharisa, Paige, and Nadia, we became marine biologists to help Nemo understand the issue and save his home!
A hen and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half. How many eggs can one hen lay in one day? We encounter problems like this in our real lives all the time, so it was only natural that on February 28th, 2020 the All Girls STEM Society hosted their first Logic Workshop. The Workshop was divided into two groups, based on grade levels. Amanda Tran and Mira Gowda led one workshop for girls in grades 3-5 with thirty-five participants while Emma Hong and Clare Malhotra led another workshop for girls in grades 6-8 with thirty-one participants.
Welcome to Willy Wonka’s Cryptography Factory! Unfortunately, somebody had been stealing the Chocolate Factory’s secret recipes to create knock-off candies. On January 17th’s Cryptography Workshop led by Katherine and Selena, we worked together as detectives to find the culprit!
 On Sunday, November 22nd, the All Girls STEM Society held an Astronomy workshop for girls from grades 6-8. Lindsay, Kaela and Grace led the workshop for more than 30 enthusiastic girls who showed up to learn about planets, stars and galaxies. Before the workshop, girls were split up into teams for a friendly competition to see who could win the most points throughout the workshop from challenges and participating in discussions. The teams were named Shuri, Gamora, Captain Marvel and Black Widow after strong female superheroes from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
On October 18th, All Girls Stem Society (AGSS) held its Pandemics Workshop, led by Kasie and Jade. Especially during these difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic, learning about diseases, how they spread, and how to stay safe is a must!
On September 13th, Selena and Katherine led All Girl’s Stem Society’s Web Security Workshop. For two hours, girls learnt the basics of websites and databases, as well as how hackers take advantage of their weaknesses.
On August 22nd, the All Girls STEM Society held their first workshop of the 2020-2021 school year. Kaavya, Sebrina, Anusri, Lindsay, Sonakashi and Nayana from Del Norte High School branch of AGSS led the workshop. From 2:00 to 4:00, girls learnt about the 11 systems that make their body run.
After Emma introduced the workshop and went over Zoom procedures, Lindsay started small with the building blocks of the human body: cells. She taught girls about organelles of the cells and how the nucleus is like the brain of the cell while the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. Participants also learnt about how cells make up tissues which make up organs which make systems which make up our entire body! Finally, she introduced the girls to the nine systems that would be covered in the workshop: cardiovascular, skeletal, nervous, respiratory, digestive, immune, urinary and muscular. She asked participants what each of the systems did, and girls responded both out loud and in the chat.
On July 18th, All Girls STEM Society held their Geometry Workshop which was the second of a two part summer series on competition math. Even in the middle of summer, over two dozen dedicated girls participated. To accommodate different levels of prior exposure to material and different learning styles, the girls were split into breakout rooms. Emma took girls who had already learnt the material before to a separate breakout room. She noted that “After the first week, we realized that every participant had a different level of experience with competition math. Some had never seen it before, while some were already very skilled, which was totally okay! Everyone starts somewhere. So in order to make sure every girl learned something and challenged themselves, we decided to split off into breakout rooms so that we could better meet the needs of each participant.” Meanwhile, Amanda took most of the girls through angles and triangles.
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