![]() We can remind our parents and teachers and leaders around our nation that all girls belong. By rethinking STEM advocacy to uplift youth voices, STEM advocates can help students share our stories of celebration and failure. All young girls should have the opportunity to find and use their voices through after-school and summer STEM programs. Those who already have platforms can help by sharing them with students. We need a seat at the tables where decisions are made, from local school boards to national STEM initiatives, and platforms to amplify our voices. Young people have shown their power to rally efforts that advocate for climate action and ending gun violence in schools. Īdvocacy efforts need to include and be led by youth, but that means we need support from the adults who are leading these conversations. Number three: Adults and mentors who listen and make space. ![]() Related: Researchers looked at how early STEM stereotypes begin for kids. When it comes to reaching young girls, no one is a better messenger than us, their peers. Programs like the Flight Crew give young girls the space to be seen and heard in the STEM community by giving us opportunities to speak at conferences and forums, share our ideas with the media, network with key leaders and learn effective leadership and communication skills.Īs Flight Crew members, we have strengthened our voices and learned how to share our journeys to inspire and give confidence to other young girls from our communities and in cities across the country to pursue STEM. The Flight Crew is a youth ambassador program that gives middle and high school girls a community to experience mentorship and learn about communication, advocacy, outreach and perseverance. We answered a national call to join the inaugural Million Girls Moonshot Flight Crew. It was lonely looking around a robotics competition or math club and feeling like an outsider.
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