Our successor team of 2017-18 girls at PLP are already making an impact in their community! nasageg.weebly.com
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
We are NASA Girls Build LA. We inspire girls to reach for the stars and encourage them to follow STEM based careers. We do this by being positive examples, providing materials, and showing students the stars in our planetarium
Girls Build LA has motivated us to shine in our own unique way!
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We got third place in the GBLA Challenge! We couldn't have done it without the LA Promise Fund, Ms. Aaroanson's support, and our coach: Ms. Perez!
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Presenting at the Expo! Thank you to our judges for taking their time to grade our team!
Our GBLA Project turned into a community service project too!
PROJECT NEED
A great need in the community that our team is planning to address is the amount of STEM work forces that involve women. There are approximately 24% of women who are a part of STEM and even so, most are Caucasian women. We know this is a need according to the U.S Department of Commerce, the need is strongly addressed with reliable statistics. Although there is a great necessity for women to work within STEM fields nationally, there is an even greater need within our own community.
Process
Our team met three times a week, and we started a community outreach at our school. The team set up a cardboard planetarium to allow students to experience an observation of the stars during the day. We spent our weekends speaking at different events throughout our community such as STEM Fairs, AAPAC Meetings, and other schools. We interviewed girls of all ages to share their thoughts on STEM and STEAM careers, and if they would like to have the opportunity to further explore it. To keep track of our progress we continuously monitored our surveys on this website. We plan to continue to update our social media as we continue with our journey 'through the stars'.
Our team conducted our work throughout the year in a timely manner as shown below.
Our team conducted our work throughout the year in a timely manner as shown below.
- 840 hours to plan our planetarium and build our website
- 312 hours for Social Media
- 15 hours to order our supplies
- 50 hours to build our planetarium
- 66 hours of outreaching
Outcome
Short Term: We expect to get more girls of all ethnicities interested in STEM. Additionally, we would like to see girls considering a career in the STEM field.
Long Term: We expect to increase the number of girls of all ethnicities in STEM and NASA. We would like to see women in engineering, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. We expect that seeing women in STEM will become consistent. We have inspired girls to choose a career in the STEM Field by showing them shows in our planetarium.
We handed out 200 flyers with more than 1,000 in attendance at the AV College.
There were more than 1,000 people at the LA County Airshow where we outreached. We gave away 100 pocket planetariums at the STEM Fair and about 500 people stopped by our table. There were around 75 people in the audience at the AAPAC meeting when we presented. About 900 students have seen shows in our planetarium!
Long Term: We expect to increase the number of girls of all ethnicities in STEM and NASA. We would like to see women in engineering, chemistry, physics, and astronomy. We expect that seeing women in STEM will become consistent. We have inspired girls to choose a career in the STEM Field by showing them shows in our planetarium.
We handed out 200 flyers with more than 1,000 in attendance at the AV College.
There were more than 1,000 people at the LA County Airshow where we outreached. We gave away 100 pocket planetariums at the STEM Fair and about 500 people stopped by our table. There were around 75 people in the audience at the AAPAC meeting when we presented. About 900 students have seen shows in our planetarium!
Evidence
The data derived from our project has shown that our STEM outreach has had many levels of success. The first level of success has been exposing girls to STEM opportunities. Our outreach has inspired approximately 2000 young girls by giving them the opportunity to explore STEM. Past research has shown that early exposure to STEM impacts girls' perception, attitudes, and abilities to pursue future STEM careers*. According to the data derived from our survey, participants surveyed have shown an interest in STEM after they have had a chance to explore STEM, via our outreach.
*A report from the Girl Scout Research Institute
*A report from the Girl Scout Research Institute
Projected Budget
* $202.50 for 400 giant binder clips in boxes that have twelve binder clips and each box is $4.50 each from Amazon.
* $739.50 for 250 pieces of corrugated cardboard from stockboxes.com.
* $739.50 for 250 pieces of corrugated cardboard from stockboxes.com.
Final Budget
Project Supplies
$1,000 for a planetarium Newtonian mirror
$250 for 450 giant binder clips for our planetarium
$700 for 500 sheets of 8’x4’ corrugated cardboard
$50 for 10 box cutters
$75 Amazon Gift Card From Winning A Social Media Challenge
$25 for 10 NASA patches
$25 for 10 American Flag patches
$25 for 10 label patches
$1,000 for a planetarium Newtonian mirror
$250 for 450 giant binder clips for our planetarium
$700 for 500 sheets of 8’x4’ corrugated cardboard
$50 for 10 box cutters
$75 Amazon Gift Card From Winning A Social Media Challenge
$25 for 10 NASA patches
$25 for 10 American Flag patches
$25 for 10 label patches
ACTION PLAN
A great need in the community that our team will address is the amount of STEM workforces that involve women. There is approximately 24% of women who are a part of STEM and even so, most are caucasian women. We know this is a need according the U.S Department of Commerce, the need is strongly addressed with reliable statistics.
Although there is a great need of women to work within STEM fields nationally there is an even greater necessity within our own community. According to U.S Census 2014 there is less than 1% of women who have received a graduate degree and approximately 10% of women who have earned a bachelor's degree.
Source: U.S. Census 2014 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates.
Our initial goal is to promote interest to women who want to participate and be a part of STEM. We plan to provide hands on experiences in our community that will get more women interested in the topic. Additionally, our social media platforms will hopefully appeal to young women our age and engage them in our STEM outreach.
Based on our research we already know that women are underrepresented in STEM careers. Unfortunately, of the small population of women in STEM there are even fewer women of diverse ethnicities. As a group we hope to improve on Media literacy, Collaboration, and Communication skills. We need to develop Media literacy skills because we have many social media outlets, Collaboration skills because we need to work together as a team, and most importantly Communication skills. As a team we need to communicate between one another, be open to each other’s ideas, and be confident with our opinions. We also need to learn how to present in front of an audience of different age groups because our community outreach depends on us communicating our mission to other young women like ourselves and have the greatest impact on our community.
The Global Context our team selected as its focus is Fairness and Development. Our group will investigate the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. Our goal is to inspire more women to work in STEM programs, giving them more access to equal opportunities in STEM fields. We hope to share our group plans to address our project towards young women of different ethnicities to learn about the many different STEM career opportunities in our community. We expect to have an impact on the society and make them aware of the low percentage of women in the STEM industry. Our portable planetarium will not only inspire young women but also anyone interested in these many careers. Young girls in our community are not aware of the STEM career opportunities that are available to them. As a team, we are dedicated to working hard and raising awareness within young girls like ourselves to pursue higher education and careers in the STEM field.
Although there is a great need of women to work within STEM fields nationally there is an even greater necessity within our own community. According to U.S Census 2014 there is less than 1% of women who have received a graduate degree and approximately 10% of women who have earned a bachelor's degree.
Source: U.S. Census 2014 American Community Survey 1-Year Estimates.
Our initial goal is to promote interest to women who want to participate and be a part of STEM. We plan to provide hands on experiences in our community that will get more women interested in the topic. Additionally, our social media platforms will hopefully appeal to young women our age and engage them in our STEM outreach.
Based on our research we already know that women are underrepresented in STEM careers. Unfortunately, of the small population of women in STEM there are even fewer women of diverse ethnicities. As a group we hope to improve on Media literacy, Collaboration, and Communication skills. We need to develop Media literacy skills because we have many social media outlets, Collaboration skills because we need to work together as a team, and most importantly Communication skills. As a team we need to communicate between one another, be open to each other’s ideas, and be confident with our opinions. We also need to learn how to present in front of an audience of different age groups because our community outreach depends on us communicating our mission to other young women like ourselves and have the greatest impact on our community.
The Global Context our team selected as its focus is Fairness and Development. Our group will investigate the underrepresentation of women in STEM fields. Our goal is to inspire more women to work in STEM programs, giving them more access to equal opportunities in STEM fields. We hope to share our group plans to address our project towards young women of different ethnicities to learn about the many different STEM career opportunities in our community. We expect to have an impact on the society and make them aware of the low percentage of women in the STEM industry. Our portable planetarium will not only inspire young women but also anyone interested in these many careers. Young girls in our community are not aware of the STEM career opportunities that are available to them. As a team, we are dedicated to working hard and raising awareness within young girls like ourselves to pursue higher education and careers in the STEM field.
