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Share your questions! Are you stumped or stuck with your Girls Build Project? Are you looking for suggestions about planning, gathering audience, or some advice and best practices for leading meetings? Need help with brainstorming, coming to consensus, setting realistic goals or expectations? Need advice on event ideas or connecting to partners. Click here to ask your questions. Team Shout-outs: Kudos to Wooden Women @Work who met with LAUSD Board member Sand and secured an endorsement to proclaim May as “Safe Jobs for Youth Month!” Kudos to George Porter Middle School for creating a plan and sharing it on Instagram - to prove it will happen! Kudos to the Moxie Girls at Sierra Verde STEAM Academy who started programming their Sphero Robots! Did we miss you? We want to celebrate with you! Send us an email about your recent accomplishments and we will shout you out as well! Let’s celebrate our successes and share with each other! ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES Women's Voices Now Online Film Festival Audience: 10th–11th grade girls (rising juniors and seniors) Deadline: January 31st Apply: https://filmfreeway.com/WomensVoicesNow Description: Go to see rules to enter a film dealing with women's issues. Use the code: GirlsBuildWaiver - This will waive the submission fee for any youth submissions.to avoid any entry fees for youth. HITEC Foundation Scholarship Application Audience: High School seniors or current college students Apply Here Deadline: March 1, 2019 Description: The HITEC Foundation is offering scholarships of $5,000 per award for students of Hispanic or LatinX descent who are pursuing technical degrees. High school seniors and current college students can apply here: https://bit.ly/2HsyHNX.
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PROJECT UPDATE
We know planning is not always smooth and easy. Have you seen our Girls Build Webcomic where we follow along through the ups and downs of a team? Check out how this team manages set backs and scheduling conflicts. Check out pages 30-40. Looking for an example?
UPCOMING WEBINAR - PLEASE SIGN UP Project Management Webinar by Fifi Buchanan January 23rd, 2019 3:15PT/ 4:15 MT/ 5:15 CT/ 6:15 ET Sign up to Join and ask your questions ahead of time. Location: Join Zoom Meeting ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES Added this week: Girls Who Code Summer Immersion Program Audience:10th–11th grade girls (rising juniors and seniors) Deadline: early acceptance deadline is February 15, and all applications are due March 15. Apply: www.girlswhocode.com/sipapply Description: The Summer Immersion Program is a FREE 7-week summer program to learn the computer science skills to make an impact in your community while preparing for a career in tech. Classrooms are hosted at influential tech companies, like Twitter, Amazon, and AT&T, where girls will be exposed to mentors and role models. Stipends of up to $1400 to cover transportation and living costs are available to those who qualify. Cities include: Atlanta, Austin, Bentonville, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Fayetteville, Hoboken, Houston, Irvine, Jersey City, Los Angeles, Miami, Newark, New York City, Philadelphia, Raritan, San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Stamford, Washington DC, and Wilmington. Learn more: www.girlswhocode.com/summer-immersion-programs Join a webinar: https://www.eventbrite.com/o/girls-who-code-15707655262
PROJECT UPDATE We have added links to all the teams' websites! They are looking so great. Please check out the other teams for added inspiration and begin to link your sites budget, planners, social media links to build out your site. It is time to spread the word about your project! Share your message with your community in a way that sticks and makes an impact. We also encourage you to use this time to recruit new members. At the very least to get underclassmen excited so you have sustainability for your team next year. Looking for an example? Check out Garfield's Team Introductions on Instagram John Marshall's team captures the activity at their meeting that includes team building activities like making ream captures that reflect their team message of sleep. UPCOMING WEBINARS - PLEASE SIGN UP Successful Habits for Manifesting the Life You Want Webinar by Tonya TKO January 16th, 2019 3:15PT/ 4:15 MT/ 5:15 CT/ 6:15 ET Sign up to Join and ask your questions ahead of time. Location: Join Zoom Meeting Project Management Webinar by Fifi Buchanan January 23rd, 2019 3:15PT/ 4:15 MT/ 5:15 CT/ 6:15 ET Sign up to Join and ask your questions ahead of time. Location: Join Zoom Meeting The Women's March is happening on Sunday, January 19th - perhaps your team can go together and do something around your project. ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES Added this week: NATIONAL AI 4 All Summer Education Programs Audience: 9-11th grade students (depending on location) Learn More and Apply here Description: This supportive and rigorous summer education programs are an entry point into artificial intelligence and computer science for underrepresented high school students. Universities include Berkeley, Stanford, SFU, Princeton, Carnegie Mellon, and Boston University. Individual applications and deadlines for each program can be found here. LOS ANGELES The Intern Project- Paid Summer Internships Audience: Junior or senior in high school from the Los Angeles County area Apply to The Intern Project! Deadline: February 24, 2019: Application closes at 11:59pm PST. Description: The Intern Project places 11th and 12th grade students the chance to work in dynamic career areas through internships of four or more weeks during their summer break. Please note that priority will be given to high need students. The online application is now open. Click here to learn more and apply! Annenberg Youth Academy Audience: Current high school freshman, sophomores and juniors Deadline: Friday, March 22nd, 2019 at 5pm PST Apply Here and Learn More Description: The Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement is a four-week summer intensive academy for 26 talented high school students from the communities surrounding the USC University Park and Health Science Campuses. Students are exposed to the equivalent of first-year college-level courses and develop a rich conceptual understanding and practice of the necessary role that media communications and journalism play in fashioning civic-minded thought leaders and innovators. Program Dates: Monday, June 17, 2019 – Friday, July 12, 2019 (no class on Thursday, July 4 or Friday, July 5 due to Independence Day) Program Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m, at Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN) includes: Free breakfast and lunch daily; AYA swag; One TAP card with a $50 value (if needed); Educational field trips; Three periods per day; Ability to meet new peers and engage with our faculty, students and staffThe Women's March is happening on Sunday, January 19th - perhaps your team can go together and do something around your project. Happy 2019!We are so excited to see all the great things you will accomplish in this new year.
PROJECT FEEDBACK Look out for an email from our Girls Build team this week and next with some personal feedback about your project. If you have any specific questions - you can email us at our NEW email address - girlsbuild@lapromisefund.org. Our old email still works - so no worries. UPCOMING WEBINARS Successful Habits for Manifesting the Life You Want Webinar by Tonya TKO January 16th, 2019 3:15PT/ 4:15 MT/ 5:15 CT/ 6:15 ET Sign up to Join and ask your questions ahead of time. Location: Join Zoom Meeting Project Management Webinar by Fifi Buchanan January 23rd, 2019 3:15PT/ 4:15 MT/ 5:15 CT/ 6:15 ET Sign up to Join and ask your questions ahead of time. Location: Join Zoom Meeting SHOW OFF YOUR TEAM! In the coming weeks we will share updates from our teams to keep us all inspired. Be sure to let us know about your upcoming events, civic engagement partnerships (which includes sharing ideas through social media) and anything else having to do with your projects and team. We love seeing you on social media and be sure to tag us so we can share the love @girls-Build In the meantime, check out the start of all your amazing websites here. ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES for students and educators. Including: The Intern Project – Paid Summer Internships Are you a junior or senior in high school from the Los Angeles County area? Interested in getting a paid internship in your dream career industry? Apply to The Intern Project! The Intern Project places 11th and 12th grade students the chance to work in dynamic career areas through internships of four or more weeks during their summer break. Please note that priority will be given to high need students. The online application is now open. Click here to learn more and apply! |
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