Its hard to believe its already time to wrap up our spring semester of Girlstart After School programs. This week each school hosted their Spring Showcase. They set up five of the activities from the semester and invited teachers and family to check it out. As visitors came through, the girls demonstrated the activity, explained what they had learned, and had their visitors participate as well.

What a busy and exciting semester its been partnering with all of our schools! We are already looking forward to the fall!

This summer, with the help of friends like you, we are raising scholarship funds to send 100 girls to camp. In just one month, we have raised 60 scholarships! More than halfway towards our goal. We wanted you to see some of the amazing people that have made individual fundraising pages this year.

William Sederholm: Girlstart's Volunteer Handy Man

"William can help us with that" is a phrase you will hear around the Girlstart offices a lot. For the past two years, William has come to Girlstart every Tuesday to help us with just about anything. He has painted doors and trim and assembled so much Ikea furniture, he now has his own Ikea toolkit. If someone is looking for a maintenance supply, it will probably be in "William's Closet", which is what we call our supply closet with all of our tools.

"I was 'volunteered' to help out with the center on Anderson Ln two years ago and have never looked back. I volunteer now because I've seen the amazing work they do, generating excitement that can be seen on the faces of the girls who participate. Most of these girls are years ahead of my own science education and I'm proud to help them move forward." 

You can see William's summer camp scholarship page HERE. He is raising 2 summer camp scholarships and is more than halfway towards his goal.

Did you hear the one joke about the rocket? It was out of this world! Make your own rocket using a film canister, fizzy tablet, water, and parental supervision.

This past Saturday was Girlstart’s Going Green STEM Saturday. Twenty 1st-2nd grade
girls and their parents came to Girlstart to explore wind and solar energy in celebration of
Earth Day last week.