WISE Symposium

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Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See

06/26/2023

A teen's guide to the garage. Every person's handbook but especially for teen girls.
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Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool, Tackle Any Project, and Build the World You Want to See When girls get building, big things happen! Emily Pilloton founded the nonprofit Girls Garage in 2013, using her background in architecture and construction to help girls get confident with tools as they build real-world projects to help their community. Now, in this book, she provides the same guid...

06/26/2023

Every W.I.S.E. woman should learn how to build!

A Mighty Girl Pick of the Day: "Girls Who Build: Inspiring Curiosity and Confidence to Make Anything Possible." This empowering guide for girls celebrates the can-do attitude of fierce girls who know how to wield a hammer, fire up a saw, and build everything from a bookshelf to a playhouse! After being the only woman on countless construction sites, carpenter Katie Hughes decided to get more girls excited about building. She started teaching classes for pre-teen girls, showing them how to drill, saw, and weld, and eventually founded her own non-profit organization, Girls Build. Now, in this colorful, photo-filled guide, Hughes features pictures and stories from 45 of her Girls Build alumni, with each girl sharing what she loves about building, what inspires her to keep creating, and what advice she'd have for other budding girl builders. The guide is also packed with tool guides, building tips, and safety techniques, as well as a list of 13 projects to give girls an easy way to get started. This empowering book is sure to inspire young DIY-ers to pick up their tools and build something great! Highly recommended for ages 8 to 13.

"Girls Who Build" is available at https://www.amightygirl.com/girls-who-build

For an excellent guide for teen girls (and adult women), we recommend "Girls Garage: How to Use Any Tool" - filled with 175 illustrated tool guides - for ages 13 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/girls-garage

To encourage your Mighty Girl's interest in using tools and building at every age, visit our blog post "Building Her Dreams: Building and Engineering Toys for Mighty Girls," at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=10430

And, to get her started on real-life building, we recommend the Build-Your-Own Wooden Birdhouse for ages 4 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/created-by-me-birdhouse), the Craftsman Kids 8-Piece Tool Set for ages 7 to 12 (https://www.amightygirl.com/craftsman-junior-tool), and the 3-Pocket Tool Belt for ages 10 and up (https://www.amightygirl.com/3-pocket-tool-belt)

05/25/2023

It wasn’t all cake and butterflies last night at the 11th annual WISE Symposium there was a lot of hard science 🧬 going on. Stay tuned for a link to our keynote speaker and more photos. engineering