The Buzzband team is thrilled for the opportunity to work with Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams!  After receiving exciting news of Buzzband’s selection as one of the eight  2021-2022 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam winners,  the team has been working on new assigned tasks. This November, we read and took notes on InvenTeam expectations found in the team handbook, allocated additional… Read more

On Thursday, November 4th, we had guest speaker Ms. Roseanne Silva talk at our Business All-Hands Meeting. She is a SVP and Business Chief Technology Officer at PNC Bank. She talked about her responsibility of delivering technology infrastructure and her involvement with cybersecurity and fraud prevention. She is a Carnegie Mellon University alumna, recipient of… Read more

Our First In-Person Meeting since March 2020! After 18 months of isolation on virtual meetings, on Tuesday October 19th Girls of Steel FRC reunited in person! Our first meeting was characterized by meeting new faces, reuniting with friends, and excitement about finally getting to work hands-on. We are lucky to be able to utilize our… Read more

  Hello! We are the 2021 FTC teams for Girls of Steel Robotics! We consist of 9 team members that make up 2 teams: Hopper and Hypatia, along with our mentors, Maggie and Sarah, and the FTC Liaison, Lauren, in FRC. Up until recently, we have been meeting online. We had our first in person… Read more

Girls of Steel has been 100% virtual since March 2020, but that hasn’t stopped our outreach efforts. This summer, we even expanded our reach by offering our first ever hackathon for students in grades K-8.  We really miss meeting members of our community in person, but for now we are making excellent use of Zoom!… Read more

From August 13-14, 2021, Girls of Steel successfully launched GosHacks Jr.– our first-ever hackathon– reaching 39 registered participants, receiving 20+ official project submissions, hosting 7 student-led workshops and panels with 5 Girls of Steel members as mentors, and distributing $400+ in awards and prizes donated by GitHub and Girls of Steel.  Participants were divided into… Read more

What is NAC? The National Advocacy Conference, or NAC, is run by the Student Association for STEM Advocacy (SASA). The Girls of Steel have participated in the SASA NAC twice before, in June 2017 and June 2018.  The NAC has been in existence for eight years, and students have participated from thirty states. This year… Read more

Girls of Steel’s 2021-2022 season was unique with its own set of challenges, but the pandemic helped the team learn to adapt to virtual settings and work efficiently. Despite these differences, we had another successful year with starting new projects, developing STEM and leadership skills, and ongoing communication/team events.  In the 2021 competition season, we… Read more

Data Anomalies Blog Post Since our last update, the Girls of Steel COVIDcast group has been hard at work monitoring and providing suggestions for the COVIDcast website. In fact, a new version of the website was recently released, and it has been made more compatible for users accessing the data from a wide range of… Read more

Girls of Steel has been holding all meetings and events virtually since March of 2020, but while we are virtual, we still wanted to reach out and help the community any way we could. Early this year, we contacted a special education teacher that we have met with before, Ms. Rachel Thiros, of the Baldwin-Whitehall… Read more