Below is a portion of an email from a mom whose daughter attended the Solar Solutions engineering design camp this past summer. I am so excited that our council is filling this STEM gap!
“My daughter has a brother that is a super science genius… she thought that she was not any good at science and that she would never be any good. She was always depressed to have to do science work, hated her science homework and I never could get her interested in any “experiments” or science projects.
She attended the “solar solutions” camp at the Girl Scout hacienda on a grant. It was like turning a corner. She is on fire for technology, science, alternative energy and engineering! She even keeps a notebook on all of her engineering ideas and science experiments. I am so grateful for the grant that made this camp possible. It opened a whole new world up to her. She is now looking up science careers and women in science. She is conducting her
own experiments, keeping track of the data and making comparison charts all on her own. She is building model solar showers and planning out a solar oven to build for her mother {which makes me really excited because I get a solar oven out of it}.
She is studying conservation, alternative energy, electric systems, design, engineering and technology all on her own {for FUN!}. Thank you so much for making this program available in Tucson. You have awoken the desire, the wonder and the possibilities of science in the mind of a 14 year old girl.
My 14 year old daughter said that the solar solutions “made me feel like I can make a difference even at my age. It made engineering fun, showed me that working in a team works better, more ideas. I think I would want to be an inventor or engineer now, before I thought it was boring. Solar Solutions camp made me understand how fun it could be.”
Thank you for opening up the world for my daughter!”
