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Hello GirlsBuild Community!
We're wishing you all good health and spirits as school is back in session! To start the new year, we're kicking it off with a Book Giveaway for current and past teams! From Diana Kapp, the author of Girls Who Run the World (2019) comes a collection of brief profiles of women working tirelessly to reduce humanity’s impact on our planet. To pre-order FREE copies to be sent to your school, please fill out linked survey while supplies last!
For more great engagement opportunities, check our recent Career Pathways Connection January newsletter. A highlight event soon approaching is the first Info Workshop for The Internship Project taking place February 2nd at 4:30-5:15pm PT.
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 Hi There Coordinators! After receiving feedback from some of you, the newsletters will be less image-heavy and more text-based to ease copying and pasting the information. It’s always helpful to get insight like this, so please feel free to reach out if you have any other thoughts. 
 L.A. Tech Talent 2020 Internships Audience: 16-24 years of age Deadline: April 30, 2020 Apply now Description: Subsidized Internships for residents of the City or County of Los Angeles ages 16-24 who qualify as low-income and are available to work 20 hours per week. Learn more about becoming an intern, and apply now! Summer Night Lights - Jobs Available Audience: 17-24 year olds Apply Here Description: The City of Los Angeles is starting to hire staff for their Summer Night Lights 2020 program. Your students can qualify for the lead squad positions (17- 24 years old) or the youth squad positions (17 – 24 years old). Annenberg Youth Academy for Media and Civic Engagement Audience: High School Students Deadline: March 20, 2020 Program Dates: Monday, June 15, 2020 – Friday, July 10, 2020 Program Time: 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m, at Wallis Annenberg Hall (ANN) Apply here 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. *meals included! Ellison Institute of USC Audience: Rising seniors Deadline: April 2, 2020 Dates: June 15th to July 2nd, 2020. Apply here Description: a free, three-week program for students interested in clinical or research oncology. Students will have first-hand experience in research labs, as they complete various experiments under the guidance of USC research faculty & staff. The Junior Fellows will also spend time with clinic staff to learn more about clinic operations and putting research into practice with patients. Contact Dr. Kian Kani (kani@usc.edu) for more information.  Counselor Conference by LAOC Regional Consortium Date: April 23 Location: Quiet Cannon, 901 Via San Clemente, Montebello, CA 90640 Register Here Breakfast / Networking 8:30 a.m. Conference 9:00 – 3:00 For questions please contact Lupe Aramburo at aramburo_lupe@rsccd.edu. Convening on California's STEM Teacher & Teacher of Color Shortage Audience: Educators, STEM Teachers, Administrators Date: Thursday, March 19th 4-7pm Locations: Los Angeles County Office of Education ((9300 Imperial Hwy, Downey, CA 90242) Description: Register to join Ed Trust-West, Just Equations, Kapor Center, The Greater LA Education Foundation, and Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation for a convening on California's shortage of STEM teachers AND teachers of color on. Dinner and refreshments will be served. Questions: email Hana Ma at hma@edtrustwest.org. RSVP HERE  GMiS STEM Scholarships Deadline: 11:59 PM PST - April 1, 2020 Audience: Current seniors, undergraduate and college graduate students of Hispanic descent and/or demonstrate significant leadership or service within the underserved community; Apply Here Description: The GMiS merit-based scholarships, range from $500 - $10,000. Applicants must demonstrate merit through academic achievement, leadership, service and campus/community engagement. Scholarship recipients will receive complimentary registration, lodging and travel to the 2020 GMiS Conference, which will be held from October 7 - 10, 2020, at Disney's Coronado Springs Resort, in Lake Buena Vista, FL. At the Conference, awardees will receive their GMiS Scholars medallion. Eligibility: Pursuing or intending to pursue a science, technology, engineering, math or health-related field of study at an accredited 2-yr or 4-yr college/university in the U.S. or its territories; and possessing an overall minimum GPA of 3.0 (on a 4.0 scale). 
 Hey Amazing Team Coordinators! As is always the case for this time of the challenge year, your teams are doing a lot. Many are working with partners like Golden Gears and Boundless Blooms, hosting fundraisers, raising awareness on their respective issues, holding wellness fairs, and are busy coding their inventions. If at all possible, I'd love to meet you, your team and attend one of your events - please add them to the Girls Build Master Calendar! Check everyone's progress out here on the Year 5 page. Check-Ins: I will be emailing each of you for an informal check-in on the progress of your projects. We can talk about any issues you're facing and brainstorm on solutions. End-of-Year Evaluation & Competition It's time to start thinking about what your team needs to put together for the end-of-year final project evaluation and competition. CLICK HERE for everything you need to know about what we're looking for by May 3rd.  NEW! Girls Build Master Calendar Please add your events to our master calendar and make them known to us. Click the button below!  Maximize your End-of-Year Impact: Get at least 20 people from your team and/or community to follow @girls_build AND your own team on Instagram and we'll award one extra bonus point on your end-of-year project. Keep track of this list and submit it to us in May. Also - did you know we can repost your story only if you tag us in it? PLEASE TAG US @girls_build in every story and post!   WHO: LA County High School Juniors + Seniors WHAT: Get placed into your dream summer, paid internship WHEN: March 1, 2020 Description: The Intern Project (TIP) places deserving high school students in paid internships based on their skills and career interests paired with a company’s unique values and needs. Students apply online, then we make matching recommendations based on their interests and the company’s job description(s). Interns also participate in college and career related workshops such as: financial aid and college app webinars, resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, and networking strategies workshops. We provide ongoing coaching to ensure their placement is successful.  WHO: Students and teachers in LA County WHAT: Free field trips at the Natural History Museum and California Science Center WHEN: Year-Round Description: Explore the Natural History Museum with free field trips all year round (including free programs, performances, and exhibits) that engage students in science, history, art, and nature and introduce STE(A)M career paths. TEACHERS! Experience free educator workshops on Saturdays every month, each focusing on various museum content with Research & Collections experts and connect your classroom with museum research.  West Adams Preparatory High School Girls Build recently went all out with their Love Yourself First Campaign at their school. They did a fantastic job engaging their school on their mission and documenting it for the record - go check it out on their instagram page (click the photo)! 💕  Compton Early College Change Agents celebrated Galentine's Day by spreading positivity and affirmations at their school. Did we mention that they're taking on all three impact pillars this year? That's an incredibly ambitious task, and they've been proving that they're capable of doing the most in the finest way. A special shout out to their coordinator, Kimberly Ponce (pictured here) for winning the BRIC Foundation's 2020 Impact Award last week. Learn more about it HERE.  Foshay Girls Build, aka Women of Wisdom are busy programming and building out their device to remind Angelenos when to take their medicine. The website also looks amazing - this is a team that has really stepped up their game in the last month. Great job kicking it into high gear in the implementation phase.  Palmdale Learning Plaza's GirlsGen worked with their school to participate in Kaiser Permanente’s anti-bullying educational theater program.
They've been awesome about engaging multiple off-campus partners to explore all kinds of aspects to achieving health and wellness AND showcasing their work consistently whilst doing it - it definitely does not go unnoticed. Hello Hello Coordinators! I'm incredibly awed and downright humbled seeing everything your teams are doing. The Radical Rosies from King-Drew High School have pre-registered 50+ of their students to vote. San Fernando High School's DIY Girls are coding and constructing their safety device. Chicas Verdes from Manual Arts High School are holding their famous farmer's markets to sell what they've produced at their school garden. Mujeres Con Animo from Animo Leadership Charter are making great progress on their documentary highlighting immigrant women's stories. These teams are also incredibly consistent in highlighting their work and integrating social media into their project. We know your teams are doing amazing work and we want to see it as well - please look to update your websites and social media platforms regularly. Panasonic Laptop Winners: The winners of the Panasonic laptops are:
Girls Who Run the World by Diana Kapp: Coordinators will be individually contacted sometime in the next week to work out logistics of getting the books to them. We had more demand than we can currently meet - but the author is working on getting more books to those waitlisted teams. Late Mid-Year Submissions: If you submitted your mid-year materials late, please expect your feedback + updates on your grants to arrive in your inbox sometime in the next week. Thanks for all the work that you do, Scarlett NEW! Girls Build Master Calendar Please use THIS LINK TO OUR MASTER CALENDAR to post your events and make them known to us. We will make every effort to attend and/or highlight them on our social media. Check Ins! I'll send you an email checking up on the progress of your project from time to time. If you'd like to schedule a phone/video call with me to discuss ANYTHING, please use THIS LINK TO SIGN UP FOR A CHECK-IN. End-of-Year Evaluation & Competition Don't wait until May to get your website functional. Start updating it with the events that you've held, and collect data on relevant measures for your impact report. This year, we're awarding scholarships AND iPads, thanks to our supporters at Comcast. CLICK HERE for everything you need to know about what we're looking for by May 3rd. Maximize your End-of-Year Impact: Here's another easy way to get engaged - get at least 20 people from your team and/or community to follow @girls_build AND your own team on Instagram and we'll award one extra bonus point on your end-of-year project. Keep track of this list and submit it to us in May. Also - did you know we can repost your story only if you tag us in it? PLEASE TAG US @girls_build! Ideas to get Engaged on Instagram:
 WHO: LA County High School Juniors + Seniors WHAT: Get placed into your dream summer, paid internship WHEN: March 1, 2020 Description: An annual initiative of LA Promise Fund, The Intern Project (TIP) places deserving high school students in paid internships based on their skills and career interests paired with a company’s unique values and needs. Students apply online, then we make matching recommendations based on their interests and the company’s job description(s). Interns also participate in college and career related workshops such as: financial aid and college app webinars, resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, and networking strategies workshops. We provide ongoing coaching to ensure their placement is successful. Click HERE to apply.  WHO: Girls in LA County, Ages 14-18 WHAT: Free social change documentary filmmaking + community activism youth program WHEN: Applications due April 20, 2020 Description: Over the course of five weeks, students learn how to create their own short documentary and how to use the medium of film to affect positive social-change in their communities.This is a free program to empower and equip girls interested in filmmaking and the arts. They become the content creators for Women's Voices Now's Empathy-to-Action Film Club, guiding viewers to champion women’s and girls’ rights, locally and globally, one call to action at a time. Additionally, they are holding a smaller workshop series on Feb 16 and March 1 in DTLA. Open to all girls ages 14-18 to sign up. Click HERE to apply and find out more details.  Last week, the Radical Rosies from King/Drew Medical Magnet High School successfully held a voter registration drive that pre-registered 50 teens over two-days. We saw how they leveraged their social media to raise awareness of the event, timed it with their school's basketball game to tap into an existing flow of people, and meaningfully engaged each registrant to take these amazing photos. This is a team looking to win it all. 🗳🇺🇸  Larchmont Charter School Girls Build undertook the classic bake sale to fundraise for their civic engagement project, which includes creating care packages for the homeless. We encourage all teams to fundraise as part of their project - it is a key way to maximize your impact + sustainability! 💰 💵  G.A.L.S. - Giving And Leading, Succeeding from Alliance Alice M. Baxter College-Ready High School are saving the bees this year! To do it, they've also undertaken a fundraising effort selling kool-aid gummies. 🐝 🍭 Major props for, again - taking the steps beyond what's required to maximize your project impact and team sustainability.  Congratulations to all the Aspirations in Computing winners on our Girls Build teams. We know many of our schools had regional winners. Special shout out to Kary C from Lennox Math Science and Technology Academy who won the National Award! 🥇🔬
Look out for applications to open in September again for all our STEM girls to apply and get recognized. Hello Coordinators! At this point, all of you should have received an email with project feedback and grant updates. Please remember to review the feedback and follow up with any action items. Overall, every team is making good progress towards achieving their goals. Some teams were already so exceptionally well-planned and executed that it blew us away. Great job all around. If you need inspiration, please check out other teams' projects + websites on our siteFrom now until May, your team will be responsible for implementing the events and initiatives you all have planned out. Keep in mind:
  Last chance to win a brand new Panasonic laptop computer for your team! Shoot + submit a video of 3 minutes or less on the following topic: What has been your team's biggest accomplishment this year, and how did you achieve it? Briefly tell us about your accomplishment, and then use most of the video to tell us about the specific tactics, strategies, tips, and technologies that made it happen. We'll pick EIGHT team videos and announce the winners in our next newsletter. The videos will also be published as part of GBTV on Instagram. Click HERE for your chance to win! Deadline: Extended to Monday, January 27, 2019, 12:00PM  When We All Vote: My School Votes Who: All Schools Nationwide (ATTN: Civic Engagement/Voting Teams!) What: A toolkit from When We All Vote + Michelle Obama for registering voters at your school. Description: Teachers and students alike can utilize the My School Votes Toolkit to get step-by-step strategies on holding voter registration drives at your school. Everydae: The Digital Tutor in Your Pocket Who: Students preparing for SAT (8th-11th grade) What: FREE subscription to app-based SAT Prep to all students who complete this form (Access code: LAPF). Description: Everydae helps students ace the SAT and prepare for college in 10 minutes a day. Just in time for the March/April SAT. The Everydae team has 20,000+ hours of test prep and tutoring industry experience. For the last year, Everydae has been building a digital SAT tutor designed around 10-minute challenges that students can complete anytime, anywhere (they can also earn gift cards when they study). Watch this 2-minute video to learn more. Again, FREE access to all students who complete this form. (Access code: LAPF).  WHO: LA County High School Juniors + Seniors WHAT: Get placed into your dream summer, paid internship WHEN: March 1, 2020 Description: An annual initiative of LA Promise Fund, The Intern Project (TIP) places deserving high school students in paid internships based on their skills and career interests paired with a company’s unique values and needs. Students apply online, then we make matching recommendations based on their interests and the company’s job description(s). Interns also participate in college and career related workshops such as: financial aid and college app webinars, resume, cover letter, LinkedIn profile, and networking strategies workshops. We provide ongoing coaching to ensure their placement is successful. Click HERE for more information + to apply!  WHO: Civic Engagement/Voting High School Teams! WHAT: Register Voters at your school + Win $5000 for a dream prom WHEN: March 13, 2020 Description: 2020 Prom Challenge is a new program created in partnership between When We All Vote and MTV’s +1thevote campaign to celebrate and recognize 20 high schools across the country integrating voter registration into their schools in the most creative and impactful ways. The winners of the competition will receive up to $5,000 to make their school’s prom dreams come true. Click HERE for more details!  The Girls Build team at Kennedy High School are truly one of a kind. Their Girls Build Credit club seeks to educate high school girls of the financial literacy skills they need to succeed in life. Watch out for this team! 👀💵 Instagram: @jfk_girlsbuild  San Fernando High School's DIY Girls are busy building whatever they want, literally. The freshman girls are learning how to solder in preparation for constructing a tech accessory that will make females between the ages of 13-19 feel a lot safer in their own community. 🔧
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