THE FUTURE IS OURS TO MAKE
Empowering girls and gender-expansive youthYouth whose gender identity and/or expression expands beyond cultural or social expectations of gender. This includes but is not limited to students who identify as girls regardless of assigned sex at birth, transmasculine youth, non-binary youth, and gender-fluid individuals. Click here to learn more. to explore STEAM through programming that builds skills, confidence, and community.
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Why It Matters:
Currently, women represent just 28% of overall employed scientists and engineers in the United States, of which only 5% are represented by women of color. And we want to change that!
ABOUT DIY GIRLS
DIY Girls creates opportunities for girls and gender-expansive youth to explore STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) in a supportive community designed to inspire exploration and positive confidence-building experiences that extend beyond these fields.
Program Objectives
SEL
Social Emotional
Learning
STEAM
Science, Technology,
Engineering, Art, and Math
Career Exploration
JDEI
Justice, Diversity,
Equity, and Inclusion
Our Impact
of students want to
participate in more
engineering and
technology activities
of Invent Girls believe they
can be successful
in a career in
STEM
of our high school
program alumni are
pursuing a STEM-
related major
Alumni Network
Our organization has an alumni leadership and support network, GANAS (Girls Action Network and Support), which includes 56 high school program alumni who are enrolled in or have graduated from college.
In the 2022-2023 academic year, 15 GANAS alumni graduated from college; 9 of these young women are pursuing careers and/or a graduate degree in STEM.
The other 41 alumni are enrolled in college and/or university, with 64% pursuing STEM-related majors, including Biology, Engineering, and Computer Science.