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Mars Habitat

Our plan is to encourage girls to explore the universe! We started the year with the movie Hidden Figures-- inspiring students and families to reach for the stars. Now we are bringing space to our campus!

We will build a Mars habitat to simulate what it would take to start a colony on the planet.
We will be researching the planet and making modules for students to learn all about it!
Our goal is to have every student on our campus and our local elementary school get to come and visit!

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Reflection of the Year
Go Stem had a brand new team this year. We had a lot of big ideas at the beginning of the year. We quickly found out that its hard to accomplish big ideas without a clear plan.
Our first couple of events were very successful but it was hard to sustain that momentum all year!
We are very proud of our growth and look forward to helping encourage girls to get into stem fields next year too!

building mars habitat

2/15/2018

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January 16th, 2018

1/16/2018

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Pumpkin Catapult

11/27/2017

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For Halloween, we created a challenge that mixed our love for science and spooky festivities. What is one way to throw a pumpkin without using your hands? A catapult! We challenged CPA students to create a pumpkin catapult and see which catapult can throw the pumpkin the farthest.

The winning prizes are: 1st place - Knotts Berry Farm tickets (with two friends); 2nd place - Movie tickets; 3rd place - Free Dress day and a special lunch.

We started off by making a presentation to explain the challenge, this presentation contained a video that showed how to create a catapult.The next step was to show this presentation to the students around our school. (Presentation) After doing so, many people signed up for the challenge!


While building the catapult we faced many challenges in the design process such as the catapult not being the right angle for the Pumpkin (Orange) to be launched in the air.

The trip to Knotts was fun we all were able to experience something that we all have not experienced before.The day there was super fun we went on a lot of roller coaster possibly like 6 or 5.

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We're back baby!

10/7/2017

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Feels so good to be back!
This year we hit the ground running. No forget that. We didn't hit the ground we took off like a rocket.

We already had our first STEM themed workshop last night on October 6th and we had over 140 students, families, and friends in attendance! That is more people than we reached all of last year combined!

How did we do it? You must be wondering.

Well we took a page from the women of Girls Build LA and hosted a movie screening. Since we had such a blast at last year's screening of Hidden Figures with Pharrell :) the choice of which movie to showcase women in STEM was clear. 

Sam started the evening by saying "Hidden Figures is a movie everyone should see." From there the girls talked about the inspiring story of courage in the face of racism and sexism and how these women blasted rockets and stereotypes out of one of the most segregated states in the US.

Check out the kids and families attending. It was a wonderful fun night and just a spectacular way to get our name out to the community and show them what we are all about. What we really believe in.

The night was so successful we even had boys BEGGING to join GoSTEM. One even planned to sneak in wearing a wig and a dress (you know because it always works in movies).

We told him not to worry and to put his lipstick away. We're having events twice a month where we will teach him and the rest of the kids on campus and people in our community cool STEM projects.
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Our Project

2/9/2017

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Our team has been discussing many different ways we could involve the community in our final project. We decided the most important thing to our group is encouraging an interest in STEM learning.

What better way to do this than by teaching younger students how to create their own STEM projects. 

By collaborating with the elementary school that shares our campus we could hold a workshop for these younger girls and show them all the cool projects we've been working on. We can also get them interested at a young age in STEM fields by teaching them how you can use STEM to build cool, creative projects.

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Social Media Challenge - How to Dominate

2/2/2017

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Here's our tried and true list for ruling social media.
1. Share several times a day, but space out your posts every few hours.

2. Respond to all comments as quickly as you can. You want followers to feel involved and to participate with your post.

3. More is less! 1 hashtag is fine. ... 

4. Don't try too hard. Be yourself. Let your quirks and opinions come out. No one wants to follow @vanillayogurt

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