These activities include reading about famous women scientists, visiting scientists’ labs at the university, interviewing women scientists and innovators, creating art and writing about the women. After learning with scientists as co-researchers, the girls work in teams to author biographical profiles or digital stories about the female scientists, engineers, and innovators. 

By introducing elementary school students to female scientists in fields ranging from biogeochemistry to mechanical engineering, and by providing authentic ways to contribute to our understanding of the world, we hope to unsettle inaccurate notions of science and of assumed pathways to becoming a scientist.