Our Partners

Since the start of our pilot program with Girl Scouts of the USA in May 2019, we have reached over 10,000 girls from ages 5-17. We’ve participated in one-day events all across the country, ranging from STEM Expos to G.I.R.L. FESTs to a Mission to Mars engineering design challenge. Our members made in-person presentations followed by lively Q&A with the girls and rolled up our sleeves with hands-on activities. We’ve seen the awe in these young girls’ faces as they begin to envision their own exciting STEM futures. We’ve heard them say they now want to pursue careers they previously perceived as being “only for boys.” Role models make a positive difference!

Girlstart is an organization that designs and implements innovative, high quality informal STEM education programs that inspire girls to transform our world. Since 2020, AstraFemina members have participated in virtual and in-person summer camp sessions and after school programs, sharing their experiences and interacting with the girls.

Artemis Academy, run by the Scobee Education Center, is a program for 5th-7th grade girls. These sessions are designed to explore the interests of the girls in an effort to develop their STEM identities, with team building activities, inspirational speakers highlighting women in astronomy and aerospace careers, and hands-on engineering design challenges. AstraFemina began participating in this program in 2021.

The Museum of Discovery’s Girls in Stem program is a free summer engagement that exposes girls ages 12-18 to potential STEM careers through an immersive, week-long series of workshops led by female STEM professionals who represent a vast variety of STEM professions. The program aims to provide a more stable future for female participants by fostering an understanding of the importance of a variety of STEM-based careers before students reach high school. The summer of 2021 launched AstraFemina engagement with this program.

For more than two decades, Techbridge Girls has developed gender-responsive and culturally-relevant STEM curricula that allow girls to see their unique STEM lineage, culture, community, and interests. They are focused on one thing: re-engineering STEM education so girls are inspired and prepared to persist toward their STEM aspirations. They equip and galvanize out-of-school time (OST) educators and STEM professionals, with the equity training and curricula that empower them to act as catalysts for the girls. In early 2022, AstraFemina became involved in supporting Techbridge workshops.

The Million Girls Moonshot seeks to re-imagine who can engineer, who can build, who can make. It will inspire and prepare the next generation of innovators by engaging one million more girls in STEM learning opportunities through afterschool and summer programs over the next five years. With common goals, AstraFemina and Million Girls Moonshot launched their collaboration in the spring of 2022 to support these programs.

Rosie Riveters works to engage and inspire preschool to middle-school girls in STEM and equip them with an enduring growth mindset, offering hands-on and interactive programs that provide girls from diverse backgrounds with a fun space to imagine, learn, and play. While Rosie Riveters' programs focus on the joy of STEM, they also emphasize productive struggle in order to build participants' critical thinking and overall confidence. AstraFemina and Rosie Riveters began working together in spring of 2022 to show girls how strong they can be in STEM.

Texas Afterschool Centers on Education is a federally funded organization that provides no-cost activities before and after school and during the summer for K-12 students in Title 1 schools. The programs center on fun, interactive, hands-on learning aligned with the school curriculum. AstraFemina has teamed up with Texas ACE to support their Girls in STEM programs at elementary and middle schools.

Hosted by Auburn University, inspireHER is an event designed to encourage and foster support for girls and women interested in learning more about engineering. Students who visit have an opportunity to meet female scientists and engineers and do hands on activities organized by the Society of Women Engineer's Auburn student group.

Tech Trek is a hands on week long program for girls involving solving STEM problems and working with women role models. It is hosted at various locations around the U.S. AstraFemina has worked with multiple Tech Trek organizers to provide role models to engage with the girls.

Scientific Adventures for Girls (SAfG) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to remove systemic barriers to all girls’ participation in STEM starting in kindergarten, engage them through hands-on learning, increase their positive attitudes toward STEM, and equip them with 21st century skills. SAfG offers sTEM programming at 22 elementary schools in the Northern California Bay Area.

The WhizGirls Academy is a STEM-focused learning workshop for students focused on healthy balanced lifestyles. Special agents engage in exciting projects that help them acquire skills in the areas of coding, fitness, healthy eating, meditation, entrepreneurship, and more, while building confidence and growing as members of the community.