Growing Innovating Researching and Learning STEM

What sparks joy and curiosity in your child? How about a book that builds confidence, or one that ignites a passion for science? Good news! My books, 'A to Z I Am Me!' and 'Mommy Teaches Me Science,' offering affirmations and home science exploration, are now live on Amazon!

Mommy Teaches Me Science presents STEM and A Movie, an educational outreach where students and parents participate together in a fun, hands-on STEM activity centered around the theme of a movie. Please join us on August 25, 2022 at 12pm in Pikesville. Register at Mommyteachesmescience.org

Happy 2021! GIRLSTEM will be moving in another direction this year. We will keep you posted. We would like to accomplish the following goals this year.

-Funding for low income Baltimore City youth interested in STEM careers

- Bringing awareness to issues young women face in daily life

- Providing a safe space for young women to discuss and issues and solve problems in personal life and in the community.

Thank you all for the support. Feel free to contact us for help in the k-12 STEM areas. Encourage others to like the page! [email protected]

Why is STEM important for African-American girls?

STEM is important for African American girls because today many of the STEM careers are looking for African American woman to fill more positions. By increasing STEM programs and activities for the girls, they build self-esteem and feel better about going into the career fields that need more woman. African American girls in the STEM fields will encourage other girls who are younger to do the same thing.

What is STEM?

According to the website www.smithsystem.com, "STEM fields or STEM education is an acronym for the fields of study in the categories of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The term is typically used in addressing education policy and curriculum choices in schools from kindergarten through college to improve competitiveness in technology development."

Tangible Hero Susan Taylor King

Our first Tangible Hero is Susan Emmaline Taylor King. She was born on July 13, 1924 in Upper Tidewater, Virginia in the town of Kilmarnock. She tells us her story below…

During the depression, my family was just barely able to survive on my father’s scant resources as a waterman in rural Virginia. Just prior to World War II, my family moved to Baltimore, Maryland so that my father could earn $5.00 a day working at the shipyard. My family of seven traveled 150 miles by car to Baltimore. All of the children entered schools in Baltimore. I entered Douglas High School and graduated in 1942.
Six months after graduation, World War II began. I graduated from high school in the academic curriculum; therefore, I had no skills for the world of work. My two friends and I entered riveting school because we had heard that there were a lot of jobs available. We attended riveting school on Washe Street in an old school building that no longer exists. Baltimore was a “top of the South or bottom of the North” city. There were separate signs on all of the stores downtown directing blacks to use one facility and whites to use another. Public schools were also segregated, so the riveting school was in a black neighborhood. Transportation, however, was not segregated. When we finished riveting school in 1942, we were hired immediately at Eastern Aircraft on Broening Highway in the Southeast section of Baltimore City. Work at Eastern Aircraft was completely integrated. All workers ate in the same cafeteria. There seemed to have been a social or civil relationship between the black and the white workers. I was a riveter who worked on the wings of aircraft. I assembled small parts that make up the wings and a supervisor would come by with a magnifying glass to make sure that all of the parts were assembled correctly.

She pioneered a way for black women to work in a majority white male field. Her story is our story! We must honor the women in STEM in our community while they are still here! Please send us your Tangible Heroes to [email protected].

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Tangible Heroes are women in the Baltimore area that work in one of the STEM fields but may have not been able to receive the recognition that they deserve. At GIRLSTEM Inc we want to honor those women in our community to provide a sense of motivation for young girls to also get involved in STEM fields. Please submit your Tangible Heroes by emailing us a picture and a brief biography highlighting their involvement in the STEM fields to [email protected].