Enrichment Programs
Enrichment Programs: a focus on critical issues
Enrichment programs help girls cultivate their interest in a particular activity—or develop an entirely new skill that will serve them well as they get older.
Enrichment programs are offered at both our Girls' Centers and in schools. Programs are not offered at all locations at all times. Contact the Girls' Center in your region to see current offerings.
Confidence, leadership and knowledge. Qualities that open a world of opportunity for every girl.
Enrichment programs address topics such as health and wellness, societal issues, science and technology and leadership.
Girls Inc. Economic Literacy introduces girls to basic economic and financial concepts, including money management, investments, and global economics.
Girls Inc. Discovery Leadership builds leadership skills and creates lasting social change by partnering girls and women in community action projects chosen by girls.
Young Women’s Leadership helps adolescent girls
develop their full potential in a complex and challenging world. Through a wide variety of activities, community service projects, and mentoring relationships, young women build self-confidence, develop leadership skills, recognize and address gender bias, improve their health and expand their horizons. Young women work together to plan and coordinate a yearly Leadership Conference, involving over 80 teens.
Girls Inc. Operation SMART
Girls Inc. Operation SMART builds girls’ skills and interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
Material Girls
A unique, intensive summer program designed to provide activities that will enhance girls’ skills and knowledge regarding tools, building materials and design; introduce them to non-traditional career tracks in architecture and construction; connect them to the community by developing service projects using their acquired skills
Open to girls ages 12 to 14.
Girls Under The Hood
A hands-on course in basic auto maintenance. Generally held in partnership with a local auto dealer or dealerships and taught by their mechanics. Weekly topics include: Getting Acquainted with Your Automobile, Tool Recognition, Fluids and Their Importance, Safety in Your Environment, Changing a Tire, Changing the Oil, Basic Tune Up and General Maintenance, Driving Laws, Laws and Consequences, Road and Highway Safety and Roadside Emergency Kit. All participants completing the course are awarded certificates.
Open to girls ages 14 and older.
First Lego League
The First Lego League, considered the “little league’ of the FIRST Robotics Competition, is the result of a partnership between FIRST and LEGO Companies. First Lego League extends the FIRST concept of inspiring and celebrating science and technology, using real world context and hands-on experimentation. Girls who join a team build, program, and test their own fully autonomous robots and then compete in tournaments. At tournaments, teams showcase their creations and challenge their peers in award categories such as strategy, teamwork, problem solving, spirit, sportsmanship, and leadership. Engineers from local companies act as team coaches.
Open to girls ages 9 to14.
Girls Dig It
An archeology program that introduces girls to the dynamic, interdisciplinary world of archaeology and engages girls in a variety of hands-on activities, group projects, and online activities. The program bridges the sciences and the humanities, combining the tools of scientific disciplines with the interpretive practices of humanities’ disciplines, such as history, art history, anthropology, linguistics, philosophy, folklore and folk life.
Open to girls ages 12 to 14.
Girls Inc. Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy bolsters girls’ communication and skills as well as their motivation and resources for being in charge of their sexual health and avoiding teen pregnancy.
Girls Inc. Sporting Chance builds movement and athletic skills, cooperative and competitive spirit, health awareness, and interest in all sports as girls explore the benefits of an active lifestyle.
Basketball
Softball
Fencing
Movement education
Fitness and exercise
Girls Inc. Project BOLD strengthens girls’ abilities to lead safer lives by developing strategies for self-defense, seeking out caring adults to help with personal violence, and advocating on violence issues.
Action For Safety
A self-defense and violence prevention program. The overarching goals of this national initiative are to increase dramatically the number of girls and young women who have the skills and resources to protect their physical autonomy and personal safety; to help girls and young women recognize and claim their right to be free from sexual harassment in neighborhood, school and work environments; and to provide girls and young women with opportunities to act collectively to reduce the level of violence in their communities and in their lives
Open to girls ages 6 to 18.
Girls Inc. Friendly PEERsuasion builds girls’ skills for resisting pressure to use harmful substances such as alcohol, tobacco, household chemicals, and other drugs.
Girls Inc. Media Literacy encourages girls to think critically about media messages and fosters their awareness of the power of the media and its effects on girls.
Girls Get The Message
Girls Get the MessageSM helps girls develop the skills to wade through the media messages that bombard them daily. The program encourages girls to evaluate the messages in media such as television shows, films, CDs, newspapers, websites, music videos, magazines, and video games. The program helps girls recognize stereotypes in media and differentiate between those stereotypes and their own lives. Girls learn to "read" media messages with a critical eye as they consider issues in the media business and the roles of women and minorities "behind the scenes" in media careers.
Open to girls ages 6 to18 |
