Anything is possible. We mean it.

Our motto isn't just a slogan. It's the thinking behind every workshop, every role model, and every girl who walks out of a g4g event standing a little taller.

The red light

Most girls don't decide against science because they can't do it. Somewhere along the way, they simply stop picturing themselves in it. Maybe they never met a woman who builds bridges or writes code. Maybe maths was only ever a page of problems, never a puzzle worth solving. Or maybe someone, just once, made them feel it wasn't really their thing. It's a quiet kind of red light, and it switches on long before anyone chooses a university course.

In 2009, our founder Melissa Rancourt, an engineer, asked a handful of people around the world whether something could be done about it. Their answer set everything in motion.

The amber moment

So we set out to create the spark: the moment when "not for me" starts turning into "wait, maybe…"

We do it by letting girls learn with their hands first. Our approach is experiential. Instead of explaining how a circuit works, we hand girls a soldering iron and let them find out. We break big, intimidating ideas into small experiments that fit in the palm of a hand.

We make sure there's always a role model in the room. It's hard to imagine becoming something you've never seen, so every g4g experience puts girls side by side with real scientists, engineers, coders and mathematicians. These people are happy to talk about the mistakes as much as the breakthroughs.

We show girls just how wide the world of STEM really is. We mean science in its fullest sense, from astrophysics to chocolate statistics. Along the way, girls pick up the skills that carry into any future: working as a team, thinking through a design and trying again when the first attempt fails.

And we never, ever make it boring. Fun isn't the icing on top of our work; it's the whole recipe. When girls are laughing, they're leaning in.

The green light

Our mission is to encourage girls of any age and any background to consider STEM, by introducing them to the world of science in ways that are fun and exciting.

Our vision is a balanced world, where girls from any nation and of any age know they have the possibility, and the choice, to enter science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

That word choice matters to us. We're not trying to turn every girl into a scientist. We want every girl to know the door is open, so that if she walks away from STEM, it's because she chose a different adventure, not because she never knew this one was hers.

It's a long shot, and we know it. But we've seen what one day can do. In follow-up surveys after our events, 94% of girls told us the experience encouraged them to pursue science, including girls who weren't studying it at the time. And some of those girls now come back as the volunteers standing at the workbench.