Give girls a greenlight in STEM around the world!

"What's a star?"

"Why would we want to split light?"

"How many possible solutions are there to this cube problem?"

"Do you just want us to figure out one solution to the liquid transfer problem, or as many solutions as we can?"

"Did you know you have to have 8 points that match on a fingerprint for it to be admissible evidence?"

With all good learning and curiosity, comes incredible and insightful questions! One of our favourite parts of greenlight for girls events is to hear the fantastic feedback from the girls – but what we love even more is to hear all the curiosity throughout the day, and the various ways that our hands-on workshops and role model volunteers inspire them to think about the world differently. With questions that go beyond what they are looking at or doing, we are able to continue to build on their knowledge and to share the fun in STEM with passion and creativity!

These past few months have taken us from Paris, France to Brussels, Belgium and to Canberra, Australia! In Paris, we met 200 girls who raced through the Nokia campus with their caisses à savon, explored the Garage full of Nokia's innovations, and discovered how 5G will bring life to a new tomorrow on our second g4g Day in Paris-Saclay. And in Brussels, dozens of young kids fueled their curiosity by making slime, discovering molecular cooking, building racing robotics, and launching homemade rockets at our Makerspace events in our headquarter office.

And most recently, we had the chance to engage 150 girls aged 11-15 at our third annual g4g Day @Canberra during Australia’s National Science Week, with a particularly wonderful moment.

As the girls geared up for their workshops, they were divided into groups each named after an inspiring, local, and modern woman in science. One group were "Evans-Galea" named after Dr Marguerite Evans-Galea, PhD, and had the chance to learn a bit about her story. One young 13 year-old girl in the group – who also happened to love art – was so encouraged after hearing her story, that she choose to personalize her labcoat in a most creative way… by drawing Dr Evans-Galea on it! The best part? The young girl got to be in touch with Dr Evans-Galea directly, who was so moved that she responded saying: “Science and art overlap strongly in the creativity required. Our best scientific ideas require us to zoom out and be creative, ‘think big’, outside the box! Then we zoom in to see the detail, ask questions, work out how to answer them, collect data and analyse in a pragmatic, logical and rigorous way. Then apply critical thinking to come to an evidence-based conclusion. Such is the scientific process!” An answer we love to hear!

Such wonderful opportunities to encourage young girls to meet local and inspiring role models in their own community is what we strive for – an opportunity that has been made possible with your support!

We’re thrilled to share that as of this month, we’ve engaged over 25,500 students, families, and communities globally at 190+ events and with the help of 4,800 volunteers since we began.

Thank you for continuing to help us in all that we do around the world in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics – and we can’t wait to share all the fun at our next events in Poland, Spain, Brazil, UK, and the USA!