Boolean Girl

With over 60,000 students and counting, we are increasing our impact on the next generation of coders each year! in 2025, we reached over 14,000 students, with a focus on girls and other underrepresented youth in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia).

✨ Read or download our full Impact Report here: https://bit.ly/3QoyDTu

We are tremendously grateful for the support and hard work of all of our sponsors and partners. They provide a diverse range of support to our mission, including: financial support, event space, volunteers, guidance, and technical support and resources.

Our 2025 Sponsors included:
Amazon.com, Battelle, Arlington County, the Business Women's Giving Circle through the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, Capital Area SIM (Society for Information Management), The Efficiency Group, Topsoe A/S, the Glenn W. Bailey Foundation, the Philip L Graham Fund, U.S. FinTech, and Montgomery County, MD Government.

When you support Boolean Girl, you transform the lives of the thousands of students, teachers and instructors in our programs.

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We started our journey teaching in 2014 with 49 girls in one elementary school in Arlington. We have now reached over 60,000 girls and underrepresented youth throughout the DMV through Camps, Clubhouses, micro:bit for All, and our other programs.

Read our full 2025 report here: https://bit.ly/4vbicc3

In the world of Girl Scouts, the Gold Award is the ultimate achievement, and one only about 3,000 girls–about 6% of Girl Scouts–will receive each year. Kaelyn Hendricks, a junior at Arlington Tech, is one of them. She reached out to Boolean Girl with an idea for a Gold Award project, and we knew it would be something special.

Read the full blog post here: https://bit.ly/43uOaE9

Girl Scouts Nation's Capital

Kaelyn's Clubhouse: A Gold Award Project to Teach Girls STEM In the world of Girl Scouts, the Gold Award is the penultimate achievement, and one only about 3,000 girls–or 5.4%-6% of Girl Scouts–will receive each year. Kaelyn Hendricks, a junior at Arlington Tech, is one of them. She reached out to Boolean Girl with an idea for a Gold Award project, and we...

To be successful in AI and other future-looking technologies, you need fundamental skills. Just like you can't become a lawyer or doctor if you can't read, you can't be an AI creator without knowing how to code. To build a future where AI is safe and accessible for everyone, we need more AI creators.

We offer four camps that will help children learn these fundamentals while also introducing them to the world of AI, developing skills in AI creation, and understanding its social and ethical impacts. Our newest advanced AI camp, Creating & Using AI, is ideal for students who have taken an intro Python class either with Boolean Girl or in school and are eager to go further by writing Python code to create AI applications.

Learn more and sign up here: https://bit.ly/4cYshmt

🚨MOCO Summer Camp News!🚨 Montgomery County has changed our Summer Camp location this year, moving it from Pine Crest Elementary to Forest Knolls Elementary, just two miles away at 10830 Eastwood Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20901. Look out for a welcome email with helpful information as we get closer to Camp!

Eliana, a student in the after-school Clubhouse at Montessori Public School of Arlington (Arlington Public Schools), recently showcased her invention, the "Wolf-Scent" at the Virginia Invention Expo. The device, similar to an AirTag, was built during Clubhouse using a micro:bit.

The after-school Clubhouse is run by Renee Shaw and led by student-instructor, Kaelyn Hendricks, a Girl Scout working toward her Gold Award through volunteering with Boolean Girl.

Eliana received a scholarship each session--funded by Battelle--and now "fully sees herself as an engineer and coder" according to her teacher, Ms. Shaw.

Learn more about after-school Clubhouses and how to bring them to your school: https://bit.ly/4n6OuCj

Micro:bit Educational Foundation

We have some exciting news to share! 🎉

Thanks to the Micron STEM Opportunity Fund, administered by the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia (CFNOVA), we’re expanding STEM opportunities for students in our community. This grant helps us inspire curiosity, build confidence, and open doors to future careers in science and technology.

We’re so thankful to Micron and CFNOVA for investing in our work and in the next generation of innovators!

Read more here: https://bit.ly/4cVt4D8

Looking ahead, 2026 will be an important year of growth and transition for Boolean Girl. In January, we were excited to welcome Lauren Bell as our Associate Executive Director. After more than 11 years, Brian Moran will be retiring in December 2026, and Lauren will step into the role of Executive Director.

Lauren brings nearly two decades of experience in corporate philanthropy, marketing, and nonprofit leadership to Boolean Girl. Most recently, Lauren served as Executive Director of the Western Union Foundation, where she led a team managing a $6M annual budget, raised over $3M per year, and built strategic partnerships with philanthropic organizations worldwide while achieving record highs in both fundraising and employee engagement along the way.

Her path to Boolean Girl is also a personal one. As a girl who loved math and science but who never quite saw a clear road to a career in computer science or engineering, Lauren understands firsthand what's at stake when young people lack visible role models and on-ramps in STEM. She is deeply committed to building a different future for the girls and underrepresented youth in Boolean Girl's programs.

You may have spotted Lauren over the past few months at Boolean Girl Clubhouses and other events, and she will be joining us for Camp this summer. She is excited to join the team and looks forward to meeting more of the Boolean Girl family!

Please join us in warmly welcoming Lauren to the Boolean Girl team and supporting her as she leads us into our next chapter!

Build Day is coming to MLK Library on May 9! Come by from 11am-2pm for a tour of the Enchanted City, a showcase designed and built entirely by elementary school artists in partnership with District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Arts, Boolean Girl and George Washington University Fab Lab. There will also be crafts and activities from Hirshhorn Art School!

Learn more: https://s.si.edu/4cJkoQy

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