☀️ We're getting close to Summer Camp! ☀️ We are so excited to see old friends & meet new ones! Over the days leading up to Camp, we'll be sharing videos our instructors made to introduce themselves. In the meantime, get to know our 2026 instructors here: bit.ly/4efAtOy
With over 60k students and counting, we are increasing our impact on the next generation of coders each year! in 2025, we reached over 14k students, with a focus on girls and other underrepresented youth in the DMV.
✨ Get our full Impact Report here: bit.ly/3Qs6QS9
We are so grateful for the support of all of our sponsors & partners. They provide financial support, event space, volunteers, guidance & tech support/resources. Support Boolean Girl and transform the lives of our students, teachers & instructors. bit.ly/4f3NGMp
We started our journey teaching in 2014 with 49 girls in one elementary school. We have now reached over 60k girls and underrepresented youth throughout the DMV through Camps, Clubhouses, micro:bit for All, and our other programs. Read our 2025 report: bit.ly/4verDYj
In @girlscouts, the Gold Award is the ultimate achievement, and one only about 3k girls–6% of Girl Scouts–will receive. Kaelyn Hendricks, a junior at Arlington Tech, reached out to us with a special idea for her Gold Award project...bit.ly/4u0vl6S@GSCNC
To be successful in AI, you need fundamental skills. You can't become a lawyer or doctor if you can't read, and you can't be an AI creator without knowing how to code. We offer four camps that teach children the fundamentals & skills in AI creation.
bit.ly/4tZXADq
🚨MOCO Summer Camp News!🚨 Montgomery County has changed our Summer Camp location this year, moving it from Pine Crest to Forest Knolls Elementary, 2 miles away at 10830 Eastwood Ave, Silver Spring. Look out for a welcome email with helpful information as we get closer to Camp!
After-school Clubhouse at the Montessori Public School of Arlington is run by Renee Shaw and led by student-instructor, Kaelyn Hendricks, a Girl Scout working toward her Gold Award through volunteering with Boolean Girl. Eliana received a scholarship funded by @Battelle.
Eliana, a student in the after-school Clubhouse at the Montessori Public School of Arlington (@APSVirginia) showcased her micro:bit invention, the "Wolf-Scent" at the VA Invention Expo. Eliana now "fully sees herself as an engineer and coder" according to her teacher, Ms. Shaw.
Exciting news! 🎉 We’re proud to be a 2026 grantee of the Micron STEM Opportunity Fund, administered by the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia. This support is expanding hands‑on STEM learning & new opportunities for kids in our community. 🚀🔬
bit.ly/4cU777B
Build Day is coming to MLK Library on May 9 (11am-2pm). Tour the Enchanted City, a showcase designed & built by elementary school artists in partnership w/District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) Arts, Boolean Girl & GWU Fab Lab.
Learn more: s.si.edu/4tp56ra
We recently joined Polk Elementary's STEM Day to work with 5th graders on an intro to AI. Students used the micro:bit to collect data, train their own machine learning models & build AI-powered apps.
Want to bring Boolean Girl your STEM day? Email info@booleangirl.org
The @ngcproject published a report on the State of Girls & Women in STEM 2026 that shows women significantly underrepresented in Computer Science (26%), AI (22%) & Engineering (16%). We work to close this gender gap by building girls’ confidence in STEM.
bit.ly/47L4Vh0
🌟FREE Coding Event for Girl Scouts🌟
Join us for a special 3-hr coding event at Arlington Mill (led by Kaelyn, a Girl Scout working toward her Gold Award), designed to achieve the Girl Scout Coding Basics badge!
- 4/18: bit.ly/47CCZvL
- 4/25: bit.ly/48cTVsV
Mark your calendars for the 35th Annual Rockville Science Day on Sunday, April 26, 2026 from 12-5 PM! Join us for the largest STEM festival in Montgomery County featuring 120 exhibitors from around the region. The event is totally FREE!
Learn more: bit.ly/4lY0Zj2
Teachers! Looking for a grant to help you bring micro:bit Kits to your classroom? Check out the McCarthey Dressman Education Foundation's Academic Enrichment Grants. We have a Grant Reference Guide to help you through your application: bit.ly/47nlXlg
🌟Help kids access Summer Camp -- share our scholarship!🌟 We have a few remaining need-based Camp scholarships available thanks to a generous grant by Topsoe. It's primarily for MoCo residents, but we do have a few available in Arlington as well. Apply: bit.ly/4uG75bz
There biases & inequalities baked into the current systems because of the lack of diversity within the group that first created it. We need creative, critical thinking community builders to help shape this technology. That's exactly what coding teaches us. bit.ly/4dtWrym