Happy DeSTEMber day Saturday, December 27! We’re excited to celebrate DeSTEMber this year with @girlstart! Join us for 31 days of hands-on STEM fun, and be sure to check out our featured activity, Keeping Cozy in the Cold, TODAY at destember.org. #Girlstart #DeSTEMber

Happy Holidays from SAfG! 🎄 🎁 Meet Isabella (and some very cute guinea pigs), who shared with us her spark, which comes from her love of art and engineering. ✨ Support the next generation with a year-end gift: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

This holiday season, we’re giving thanks for the sparks that start it all. One of our amazing Near Peers, Sa'Mera, shares how she found her spark during one of her SAfG classes as a young student! 🎁 Make a year-end gift: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

Looking for a gift that truly makes an impact this season? 🎁 Today hear from Charlotte, who is sharing her STEM spark and her love of engineering and animals. Donate today: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

To continue this season of giving, we’re sharing a spark that started it all. ✨ Meet Abby, who is sharing her STEM spark - the engineering class that made her curious, confident, and excited about STEM. 🎁 Make a year-end gift: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

Gifts that spark change last a lifetime. Watch Sophie share the spark that started her STEM story! ✨ Your support keeps STEM accessible for the girls who need it most. Donate: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

This giving season, help us keep STEM opportunities bright for every girl. Today’s featured spark comes from May, inspired by her ever-growing love of math. Your gift protects STEM learning for girls across the Bay. Donate:https://www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025

The holiday season is the perfect time to reflect on the sparks that shape STEM journeys. Today we’re highlighting Luzbeydi, one of our amazing STEM teachers. Help girls discover sparks of their own with a gift today: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

It’s the season of giving - and a perfect time to invest in girls’ futures. "I used to sit in my grandpa's office...for hours to build things like joysticks and...program computer games." - Nikki Donate here: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025

As the year comes to a close, it’s a meaningful time to give back and create opportunities that last. Meet Darenae, an SAfG Board Member, whose spark was lit from her mom's constant support of her STEM dreams. Support girls today: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025

This giving season, you can help keep STEM opportunities alive for girls everywhere. Today's spark features Ana Valencia from Turner Construction, whose love of building and engineering came from helping her dad on projects at a young age. Give today: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025

The holidays are here, and so is a beautiful chance to lift up our girls. Today’s story showcases Stephanie, and how a single experience with her dad opened doors to a future in engineering. Donate: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

Donate to Light a Spark! ✨ The STEM spark we’re sharing today began with a challenge to find out where she fit in. Help us continue making STEM accessible and joyful for underserved girls across the Bay Area. Donate: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555

This year's Berkeley Holiday Gift Catalogue is now available! The guide lists local organizations people can support during the giving season. We hope you’ll check out the catalogue and consider helping us keep girls’ STEM programs strong. berkeleyholidays.com/youth-and-ed...

When girls see women in STEM, they see a future full of possibility. Meet Jo, a PhD student at UC Berkeley who ignited a future in science over a single curious discovery in high school. 💡 Donate: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 or text STEMSPARK to 53-555 #SAfGSpark

Women in STEM show our girls what’s possible and who they can become. Today, hear from Molly, whose experience in the Kaiser program as a child helped shaped her future career at Genentech! Give the gift of opportunity: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 #SAfGSpark

For today's spark, read about Archisha, whose curiosity and determination, especially as a POC, led her to a awesome engineering career! "You will find meaning in doing the hard things, so keep trying, no matter what." - Archisha Donate: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 #SAfGSpark

Women in STEM light the way for our girls by showing them what’s possible and who they can become. Today, hear how Lisa discovered her first spark - and why she’s helping us ignite the next generation. Give the gift of STEM this holiday season: www.scientificadventures.org/stemspark2025 #SAfGSpark

✨ Introducing STEM Sparks ✨ All month long, we’re sharing the real moments that ignited women’s passion for STEM, and raising support to help spark the next generation. Stay tuned for powerful stories, inspiring visuals, and ways you can help us protect the future of girls in STEM. #SAfGSpark

Our first Family Science Night of the school year was a blast! Washington Elementary families led by UCB Theta Tau Engineering Fraternity volunteers built "earthquake-proof" towers, launched parachutes off of the school stage, and even took robots for a spin. 🤖 🪂

Thank you Life Science Cares for connecting us to BioMarin for an Adopt a Lesson last week. BioMarin packed a whopping 2000 take home kits for our girls to engage with during their winter break! Who doesn't love sparkly slime and igloos made of toothpicks and unicorn marshmallows? 🦄 ✨

Happy STEM Day to all of our partners, supporters, staff, families, and most importantly, our SAfG girls! Together, we are changing the face of science. Interested in STEM? Our K-6 programs give students the tools to become the scientists of tomorrow. Learn more: www.scientificadventures.org

THANK YOU to Exelixis and Life Science Cares for an incredible STEM Kitting event! Their adopted take-home kit - Biomimicry glasses - will help keep our TK-6th grade girls engaged in science during winter break. Exelixis' determination to kit all 1020 packs in under an hour was unparalleled!

Let’s discover science together this Saturday, October 25! Join Scientific Adventures for Girls at this year’s Bay Area Science Festival at UCSF Mission Bay as we turn the Koret Quad into a scientific wonderland. This event is free for all - tell your friends! ~~ #BayAreaScienceFestival #SAfG

We had an amazing time at the Sharks Foundation’s Community Assist Grant Recognition Game! 🏒💙 Thank you, @sharksfoundation, for celebrating local nonprofits and supporting our mission to empower girls in STEM. Here’s to another great season of community and impact! #SharksFoundation #STEMforGirls

Ever wonder what 1.5 TONS of Legos looks like? 3169lbs of Legos in 456 kits prepared to engage 950 girls in 24 schools in engineering learning!

Sponsor a set. Sponsor a school: www.givebutter.com/SAfGLEGO What if every girl saw herself as an engineer? This winter, 875 girls in TK-6th grade will get hands-on with Lego® engineering by building, racing, balancing, and launching their way through STEM. We’re building something BIG!

Stop by our FREE fall library program hosted at the Richmond Auditorium Branch on Mondays from 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM! This program is available for the whole family, but is highly recommended for ages 5 - 12. Classes are drop-in and available for ten weeks - come for one or all classes!

A huge thank you to Wareham Development for supporting SAfG! Together, we kitted for two Biomimicry lessons, Animal Adaptation Challenge and Bird Beak, for more than 1,000 girls across 25 schools. Thank you, Wareham, for your commitment to community impact and STEM education for girls!

This winter, 875 students are ready to build, create, and explore with LEGO® STEM kits, and YOU can help make it happen! 💜 $40 or more = sponsor 1 girl’s LEGO® BricQ experience 🏫 $1600 = sponsor a school site = lasting impact for many students Donate at www.givebutter.com/SAfGLEGO

Ever wondered what an SAfG class is like? Stop by our official SAfG classes on Mondays, where our teachers will be doing the same projects that we do in our afterschool classes! Come for one or all of our free classes, where we will be exploring the science of Biomimicry 🐾 Hope to see you there!

Please welcome one of our new Head Teachers, Amanda Mathews! We are incredibly excited to see what creativity and joy she will bring into our SAfG classrooms. 👩‍🔬🌟

Today on Women’s Equality Day, we celebrate the progress made and the bright future ahead. At SAfG, we believe every girl deserves the chance to dream big, explore boldly, and lead. Let’s keep building a world where equality in STEM isn’t just a goal - it’s a reality. #WomensEqualityDay

Please welcome Sophie Meckstroth to the SAfG Team! As a Head Teacher, Sophie will be bringing her love of science into the classroom, where she will be inspiring girls every day to also pursue a future in science 👩‍🔬✨

Scientific Adventures for Girls is looking for girls in high school to serve as Near Peers in our TK-6 after-school STEM programs It is rewarding work to become a role model for our TK-6 girls! For: Girls and girl-identified youth aged 15 or older

We are incredibly proud of our students this #InternationalYouthDay for not only all the amazing ways they exhibit their STEM skills, but for their expertise in showing kindness, collaboration, and leadership. 💜 SAfG is so excited to be back in the classroom with our students very soon!

Try it yourself! 👩‍🔬 Learn how to make Elephant Toothpaste at home, just like we make it at SAfG. Just remember to wear your safety goggles! ~~ #SAFG #science #creativity #STEM #GirlsinSTEM #education #fun #STEAM #STEMforgirls #girlsleadSTEM #STEMathome #diy #CA #nonprofit

We need your helping hands for our upcoming STEAM-stravaganza! It will be a day packed with science, creativity, and fun for our K-6th grade students and families! Join us in bringing hands-on STEM magic to life. Sign up now - tinyurl.com/SAfGSept6Vol

Thank you to our funder, Akamai Foundation, for supporting us for the 2025-26 school year! 🧪 We look forward to a new year of amazing, hands-on STEM experiences, and we are grateful to the Akamai Foundation for their continued support in helping us change the face of science.

Launching into a new week like...✈️ 💨 ~~ #SAFG #science #creativity #STEM #GirlsinSTEM #education #fun #STEAM #STEMforgirls #girlsleadSTEM

Only 3 chances left to join us for hands-on STEM fun at the Main Library and Westside Library! Bring the whole family for hands-on science and engineering activities. Perfect for all ages and designed for families to build and explore together! No registration needed. All ages welcome.

Join us for our STEM Library classes at a few different Richmond libraries this summer! ☀️ We will be offering free, hands-on STEM projects for all kids and their families, so if you have ever wondered what an SAfG class looks like in action, stop by! ~~ #STEM #library #SAfG #STEMforGirls

Thank you Edwin Sevilla, from Senator Adam Schiff's office, for taking the time to visit one of SAfG' classes to see girls engaging in STEM! We appreciate your support of girls in STEM!

A special thank you to Stella Gryler for her ongoing support and dedication to elevating the work of SAfG. Your advocacy means so much to our team and the communities we serve. Pictured: Courtenay Carr Heuer, Stella Gryler, and Amy Miller at the Nonprofit of the Year luncheon.

Thank you to Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks and her team for supporting our work and helping us share the importance of engaging girls in STEM from K-6th grade. We're honored to receive this resolution recognizing our impact, pictured here with Assemblywoman Wicks herself! #CalNOTY2025 #NonprofitPower

Thank you to Nicolette Genovese and Assemblywoman Wick's office for setting up meetings with legislators and others to share about our work engaging girls in STEM in K-6th grade and the importance STEM has on our students! #CalNOTY2025 #caleg #NonprofitPower

Scientific Adventures for Girls has been recognized for our impact and dedication to advancing equity in STEM education across California. We’re grateful to our community, partners, and supporters who help make our mission possible every day. 💙 Read more here: www.globenewswire.com/news-release...

Scientific Adventures for Girls just received the "Non-Profit of the Year Award" from Assemblywoman Buffy Wicks' District 14 office (our district) in partnership with California Nonprofits Association. We are incredibly grateful and proud to receive this award! 💜 👩‍🔬