About the Girls, Math & Science Partnership
The Girls, Math & Science Partnership (GMSP) was created to address issues regarding girls, their participation in science, and the expansion of their opportunities in and influence on the science and technology workforce. Working with girls ages 11-17, their teachers, parents, and mentors, GMSP draws organizations, stakeholders, and communities together in an effort to ensure that girls succeed in math and science. The partnership's mission is to engage, educate, and embrace girls as architects of change. In 1999, The Heinz Endowments began collaborating with the Alcoa Foundation and Family Communications, Inc. to incubate the partnership, establishing its commitment to scientific literacy projects. GMSP's successful website, www.BrainCake.org, reaches more than one million hits per month. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Science Center now is providing the administrative home for the partnership and acts as a steward of its continuing mission. GMSP's national expansion efforts are manifested in affiliates at other science centers across the United States, including its latest launch in Phoenix.

BrainCake.org  - Smart. Sweet.

BrainCake.org is an online sisterhood for girls ages 11-17, which features programs, scholarships, virtual mentoring, girl blogs, homework help, research, and resources in a framework that integrates pop culture, science, and learning. Sections for mentors, teachers, and stakeholders interested in gender equity are included.

The site reaches approximately 30,000 visitors monthly and has almost one million hits every month.

Check out www.BrainCake.org.

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Click! - Urban Science Adventure

Click! is a six-day camp for middle school girls that uses location-aware mobile devices paired with high-tech computers and a complex science mystery. It's "Charlie's Angels" meets reality TV in a science adventure unlike any other in the nation. Girls earn their Click! "agent credentials" by using an urban setting as their own detective agency.

The camp offers three levels, each with a different adventure. Descriptions of the camps are available. Call 412.237.1637 to register or for more information.

Interested in having your own Click! program? Contact Jennifer Stancil at 412.237.3356 or StancilJ@CarnegieScienceCenter.org. for more info.

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The Girl Solution: A Gender Equity Toolkit

The Girl Solution is a toolkit for educators, after-school programs, and girl-serving agencies, that helps engage and sustain girls' interest in science, math, engineering, and technology. The program is designed for girls in grades 4-8, a time when they are likely to lose interest in these subject areas.

The toolkit can be used to train teachers in individual schools or entire school districts. The toolkit is available for sale individually or within a workshop training format. If you'd like more information, contact Erin Gray at GrayE@CarnegieScienceCenter.org.

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GirlTalk Radio

GirlTalk is an after-school program designed to immerse middle school girls in media production, audio engineering, and interviewing techniques with female mentors. During the program, participants conduct, edit, and broadcast to a live audience of 80,000 listeners through a partnership with The Saturday Light Brigade. This chance to interview emerging and established female mathematicians, scientists, and engineers connects generations of future scientists to women who are in these fields today.

Download Season 2 of GirlTalk, available in podcast format.

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Can*TEEN

Can*TEEN is a new project of the Girls, Math & Science Partnership. Can*TEEN is a kit for teen girls that is designed to connect girls to science in a way that captures their imagination and cultivates their interest in science as a career. Can*TEEN puts girls in touch with resources, mentors, curriculum, and each other to inspire girls' choices of seeing science as their career and a way to make a difference in the world.

About the Kit
Each STEM discipline has two girls associated with it as guides, both of whom are inspirational and practical. Each guide has a detailed profile that can be explored by any girl at any time using multiple access points-from interests and women mentors to websites and different learning styles. Kits will be available for sale online beginning May 2009.

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Inspired? Give to any of these programs or our general operations at www.BrainCake.org/addgirls. Named sponsorships also are available.

For information or questions about any of GMSP's programs and how to get started, contact Jennifer Stancil at 412.237.3356 or StancilJ@CarnegieScienceCenter.org.