Mini-Grant Awards

• 2010 Earth Day
  Collaborating Organizations: UM Cooperative Extension, St. John Valley Soil, Water Conservation District
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 6-10
  Location: Aroostook County
  
  Provide an Earth Day celebration to support girls’ and boys’ interest in science through hands-on activities while teaching about water knowledge connected to real-world situations. Students will a dozen stations with themes ranging from water cycle to water saving techniques for daily living.

• Adventures in STEM
  Collaborating Organizations: Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Elephant’s Foot Productions
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 6-10, 11-14
  Location: Waterville Area
  
  To create a short promotional film for the Adventure Girls program and to showcase STEM careers for the Hardy Girls Healthy Women website.

• College of Engineering Campus Tour Day
  Collaborating Organizations: Society of Women Engineers, UM College of Engineering
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Females Age 15-18
  Location: Orono event for girls from all over the State of Maine
  
  To provide a tour and also lectures to teach girls the value of having a degree in STEM fields. Girls will also have time to talk individually and as a whole to both professors as well as current female college students in STEM.

• Girl Scouts of Maine STEM Program
  Collaborating Organizations: Girls Scouts of Maine, Challenger Learning Center of Maine
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups:Students Age 9-18
  Location: Bangor Area
  
  To provide a forum for girls to explore their interest and curiosity in STEM careers. To have them work as a team as well as utilize their own leadership and decision-making skills to complete a space mission.

• Girl Scouts Robotics Day
  Collaborating Organizations: Girl Scouts of Maine, Maine Robotics
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 11-14
  Location: Orono, Presque Isle
  
  To recruit from membership and provide two 1-day experiences during which Maine Robotics will bring equipment  and staff members to conduct learning experiences in robotics.  Working in teams of 2-3, girls will learn to build robots from LEGOs , and how to program them using computers.

• SeDoMoCha Middle School Mathematics
  Collaborating Organizations: SeDoMoCha Middle School, SeDoMoCha Cousneling Services
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 11-14
  Location: Dover-Foxcroft
  
  Students will be recruited the reminder announcements as well as their math and science teachers. The group will meet weekly to introduced the students to new concepts, review those concepts, and practice their application to in timed and pressured settings designed to increase confidence and competence both as an individual and as a group.

• Think Tank with STEM Professionals
  Collaborating Organizations: Damariscotta Montessori School, Platform Shoes Forum
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 11-14
  Location: Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts
  
  2-4 Girls will be selected from STEM after-school programs based on attendance and participation and overall interest in committing to a 4-month project. The girls will attend a full-day Think Tank event hosted by Zoey’s Room.  They will work together in teams with STEM professionals and ZR Staff to creatively brainstorm and develop STEM-related curriculum that appeals to their age group.  

• Exploring Bio-Medicine Field Trip
  Collaborating Organizations: TRiP Upward Bound at UMPI, Foundation for Blood Research
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 15-18
  Location: From Presque Isle Area to Travel to Portland, Maine
  
  To introduce rurally isolated, low-income, potentially first-generation college students who are participants in Upward Bound (of whom 50% are girls) to the possibilities of careers in biomedical science and the health field. They will participate in piloting the Biomedicine Works Curriculum, and visit the Maine Medical Center as a field trip to experience a “mini medical school day”. 

• Powered by Girls: STEM and Leadership
  Collaborating Organizations: Unity College, Hardy Girls Healthy Women
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 6-10, 11-14
  Location: Waterville Area
  
  HGHW, along with Unity and Colby students, will establish 5 STEM-related workshops to connect girls with STEM fields and purposes. The workshops will teach the girls how to utilize iMovie, photo shop, computers and the internet to create social action projects, and learn about women in conservation, marine biology, and wildlife care and education.

• Students Exploring STEM
  Collaborating Organizations: Maine College Circle,& MSAD 41
  Target Age Groups/Sub Groups: Students Age 11-14, 15-18
  Location: Brownville
  
  A core group of 20-30 girls from 6-9th grade will participate monthly in brown-bag lunch meetings to discuss and learn about STEM fields. This group will participate via Tanberg with other rural schools in Stem discussions. This group will attend EYH at the University of Maine to gather STEM information, and organize to work with adults staff to host the 1st STEM Overnight College/Career Fair. This fair will allow these girls along with all girls in 6-9th grade in this district, informal hands-on experiences as they learn about STEM careers. The girls will be in charge of designing and maintaining a STEM group Web page.