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Each year, up to ten female Middle School students can register to participate in Tech Girls. This organization, which is affiliated with Girl Scouts, focuses on STEM.
Tara Holaday and Laura Christian spearhead the organization, and the experiences their group gets to have are incredibly engaging and empowering. Mrs. Christian stated, “We enjoy seeing these students participate so enthusiastically in different STEM projects. Over the course of each year, we see tremendous growth in each student's leadership abilities, presentation skills, and confidence in their STEM skills."
Ms. Holaday explained, "We meet once a month, and we do different themes each time.” For their Engineering experience, the group worked on assembling and weighing their artificial satellite for the “Mission to Mars” project. The girls were assigned roles such as project manager, engineer, logistics, and data analyst and given specific materials to build an artificial satellite with the criteria of a limited mass.
At their second meeting, they participated in a crime scene investigation using a hair to determine the guilty suspect.
They have several more fun events lined up for this year, including having a marine biologist come in January to give a presentation. Then they plan on going on a field trip to Cedar Creek to kayak down the Colorado river and meet at McKinney Roughs for rock climbing, ziplining, and other problem solving activities.
Ms. Holaday shared, "We thank the Girls Scouts of Central Texas Team for this opportunity for our students! Our students also love getting meals from them!”
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