WHO: High
school Junior and Senior girls who want to learn science and math through real-world applications!
WHAT: A free afterschool program that has lessons once a week and uses hands-on learning to improve your Science and Math abilities, raise your ACT scores, and prepare you
for success in college. Also, learn how to use social media tools like Blogger for creating your own science blog. Students who successfully complete the program will be eligible for
the Girls’ Academy Scholarship at Alverno College (see below for more details).
WHEN: New activities and Zoom meetings on Select Fridays (from October through May) from 5:00pm-7:00pm. View full calendar here!
WHERE: Program is held in a virtual format for this fall semester and we hope to have a face-to-face format in the spring, if the current pandemic subsides. If the program
returns to a face-to-face format in the spring, transportation would be provided to Alverno College and home, after the program has ended for the evening on Fridays.
- Juniors will engage in virtual and at home learning to understand the structures and properties of common substances used in the beauty industry and their effect on the environment and
health. Also, you will develop and test your own lotions, soaps, and fragrances!
- Seniors will engage in virtual and at home learning to investigate what makes your favorite foods look, taste, and smell so good! You will use your taste buds as well as scientific
investigative strategies to test foods prepared in different ways. Also, you will create your own recipes based on chemical principles that make cooking creative and fun.
- Complete an investigative group project to present to family, friends, and teachers.
- During your senior year of high school if you apply to and are accepted into Alverno College you will be eligible to receive the Alverno Girls’ Academy Scholarship.
(See more below.) Scholarship amounts start at $4,000 per year, and require that student meet the college admissions requirements as well
fulfill the attendance and performance expectations established by the Girls’ Academy of Science and Mathematics program.
