A brand new season of the groundbreaking, Emmy Award-winning SciGirls TV series is debuting this April on PBS KIDS! We here at The Funny Mom Blog have been chosen to help spread the word about this amazing program that’ll not only enrich all children’s lives, but entertain them as well! All opinions are our own.
SciGirls is in the house…and on the street…at the beach…and in the park! From their own backyards to a NASA research center, the bright, relatable, real girls featured on the groundbreaking PBS series are seriously into science, technology, engineering and math, or “STEM”. And Season Three of SciGirls finds these STEM adventurers tracking toads, counting clouds and much more, all in the name of citizen science.
SciGirls is changing how millions of girls think about STEM and that is amazing you guys! SciGirls was created as an educational initiative that targets girls ages 8 to 13 years old with a singular but powerful goal to inspire, enable and maximize STEM learning and participation, encouraging greater interest in STEM careers. Because we need more females in STEM careers!
The SciGirls Seven Strategies for Engaging Girls in STEM:
- Embrace Collaboration
- Are Personally Relevant
- Offer hands-on, Open-ended Participation
- Accommodate Preferred Learning Styles
- Provide Specific, Positive Feedback
- Allow for Critical Thinking
- Involve Role Models & Mentors
Made possible by a major grant from the National Science Foundation with additional funding provided by INFOR, Northrop Grumman Foundation, and PPG Industries Foundation, the eagerly anticipated third season is all about citizen science and features 6 new episodes starring real girls who are seriously into science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Along with their mentors, they are on a mission to inspire and empower girls everywhere to take up the charge and become the next generation of female scientists and engineers. The new episodes will air weekly on PBS KIDS (check local listings), and will also be available online nationwide starting April 15 at PBS KIDS online.
Each 1/2 hour show follows the SciGirls as they embark on sci-sational adventures from coast-to-coast, making incredible discoveries and performing unique experiments all in the name of the latest STEM frontier, citizen science. And as the SciGirls go from tracking toads to observing butterflies, counting clouds to learning about urban ornithology and more, viewers at home can tag along on each of their incredible science based expeditions and learn more about how they can make a difference, too!
To coincide with the start of the new season, SciGirls is unleashing mobile-friendly upgrades to its engaging website, too. Complete with two new games and interactive videos, the site enables fans to connect with fellow STEM explorers and further supports the SciGirls mission, which is nothing short of changing how millions of girls think about science, technology, engineering and math helping to turn sci-viewers into sci-doers!
