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As of 2020, The national average wage for all STEM occupations is $87,570. This is nearly double the average wage for non-STEM occupations.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Studies show STEM exposure in elementary school piques students' interest in STEM careers.
UC San Diego
About 1/3 of the STEM workforce are women, with the most underrepresentation in computer science. This is despite the fact that women are at least half of the college-educated workforce.
Gallup
Nationally, men in colleges and universities currently outpace women in earning physics, engineering, and computer science (PECS) degrees by a ratio of 4-to-1.
NYU
July 21-25
In partnership with Hilliard Recreation and Parks
Please send an email to info@cooltechgirls.org to sign up to volunteer.
Register students with the button below.
Sept 27, Oct 4, Oct 11 from 12:00-3:00 pm
Open to all students 4th-12th grade
Enrollment opens soon!
In partnership with PPG Foundation and Hilliard Recreation and Parks.
Please contact info@cooltechgirls.org to get involved.
October-November 2025
Open to all students 4th-12th grade
In partnership with PPG Foundation and Gahanna Parks and Recreation.
Enrollment opens soon!
Please contact info@cooltechgirls.org to sign up to volunteer.
TechnoChallenge Fall Camps with parks and rec partners will offer all students ages 9-17 of any gender and ability the chance to learn about various types of sensors, AI chatbots, and Python programming, and possible real-world applications to solve problems and increase accessibility.
Please contact info@cooltechgirls.org to get involved.
Date: TBD 2025
The purpose of these lessons is to give students opportunities to imagine and explore real-life circumstances and choices and then create products, solutions, and understanding to guide their future.
Activities include:
• Decipher Codes and Patterns Like a Spy
• Measure Up! Exploring Accuracy and Error
• Mathematical Decision Making
• Cooking with Conversions and Fractions
• Mathemagicians: The Math Behind Magic
• Probability in Play—Game Night
• Budgeting, Bartering, and Banking
Interested in planning an event or volunteering for our math program?
Contact us: info@cooltechgirls.org
January 31, 2026
4th-8th grade Juniors and Cadettes.
Registration required through troops and Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland
Girl Scouts will learn about circuitry and develop sewing and crafting skills while building a light up bracelet. Girls will discuss career possibilities and paths in STEM.
Contact us: info@cooltechgirls.org
TECHNOFASHION is a series of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) workshops paced over a couple of weeks working on projects. The program aims to educate girls in electronics and programming, strengthen their self-confidence, help them develop presentation skills, and attract them towards STEM careers in the future. This year the program will be offered by Gahanna Parks and Recreation. TECHNOFASHION participants work to self-explore sewable electronics and learn how to design and build a project.
Any creative middle school girl in the Central Ohio region interested in hands-on experiences and in exploring technology are welcome to register. The girls, however, should be available to attend all Fall workshops. The dates for the workshops will be published soon. An electronic kit will be distributed to the participants as part of the sessions.
This year, we introduced a new program - "CoolTechGirls-in-a-box" available to middle school STEM teachers or teachers who might be interested in offering the TechnoFashion program as an extracurricular STEM activity in their schools.
In this box, we provide everything needed by the instructors to teach the program in their class. Our program coordinators/mentors will train the teachers on how to run this program in their respective schools following a train-the-trainer model.
Materials with guides to run 3 workshops covering engineering and wearable technology concepts.
Projects designed in collaboration with our OSU associates.
One electronic kit valued at a total of $110.
Orientation and training from CTG staff and mentors.
Access to instruction videos needed to run the program.
To get started, we are offering these boxes to the schools at an introductory price of $50/box. The box is valued at $200. We would love to work with the teachers in your school district and make an impact with the larger community. Please email us at info@cooltechgirls.com to express your interest in working with us or pay online to buy the kits for your organization.
CoolTechGirls is interested in hosting a series of virtual zoom workshops between September of 2024 and May of 2025. These workshops would be hosted on the weekends: Saturday workshops could be hosted in the morning or the afternoon, while Sunday workshops would be hosted in the afternoon. We are looking for volunteers that are willing to lead a series of workshops for 1-2 hours that teach elementary or middle school girls about any STEM related topics. Topics include but are not limited to app development, hackathons, python, scratch, leadership, algorithms, SQL, and more. The leader could share their own experiences in STEM, teach about a new and upcoming tech field, or lead a demonstration. In a demonstration, the girls should be engaged in a hands-on activity, such as coding on their own devices while listening to the leader walk through the steps. We would prefer hands on workshops, but CoolTechGirls will work with any potential leaders on the types of materials available to the students and on how to make the sessions interactive.
Please email us at info@cooltechgirls.com if you have any general suggestions or ideas. If you are interested in leading these workshops, please fill out the following form: http://tiny.cc/g5gmsz
CTG’s mission is to engage school age girls in a collaborative and enriching environment that will ignite their passion for STEM careers with the purpose of empowering them to drive continuous positive change in their world. We actively encourage our girls to seek challenging and fulfilling careers that ignore traditional gender bias by connecting them with role models, mentors, and opportunities to develop their interests, skills, and personal networks. CTG’s ultimate goal is academic change, financial security, and representative leadership for the women of Central Ohio.
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Host two to three-hour sessions with speakers/women leaders/discussion on topics related to STEM.
Hands on training events/Field Trips, Career Exploration sessions, Speaker Panels, Networking events.
Co-host STEM related events with local community partners like Hackathons.
Connect girls to STEM leaders, companies and the community.
Your contributions will help provide these opportunities and resources for the girls of today to create the world of tomorrow. Help us educate and empower more girls with the chance to change the world.
There are multiple ways to support this organization. Donations through the CoolTechGirls website are incredibly helpful. Your donations will help us:
Fund lab spaces to host our sessions.
Fund equipment.
Fund program managers and workshop coordinators.
Seed funding to start the initiative to create a CoolTechGirls in a box program that will enable expansion of CTG program beyond Central Ohio.
Our donations are collected by Community Shares of Central Ohio. It is a coalition of locally-based, non-profit organizations. On the Give Now page, you can choose any amount that fits within your budget. Your tax-free donation will help keep our programs free of cost for Central Ohio school-age girls.
Donations can be accepted through the CoolTechGirls (www.cooltechgirls.org) website or via mail. Our non-profit partner Community Shares will be collecting donations on behalf of CoolTechGirls.
Please have all checks made out to Community Shares and write on the Memo line: Donation for CoolTechGirls.
Community Shares will be sending thank you and acknowledgment letters to each donor.
Mail checks to Community Shares, 1699 W Mound St, Columbus, OH 43223.
If you would like to see more women in tech jobs, it all starts with little girls and their aspirations. If you are looking to expose your daughters to different STEM careers, please support us by clicking the Donate Today button.
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