Coastal Studies for Girls is fortunate to have the opportunity to collaborate with exciting organizations engaging in exciting work for the benefit of girls. Click on the links below to find out more about them:

Learning Like a Girl

Strategies for finding Girl–Nurturing Societies if you can't make a school. Click here for more details on this great book!

 

National Girls Collaborative Project

Coastal Studies for Girls is invlolved in this project. Please click here to learn more about the project.

Cool Science Happening in Maine

Kelly Dorgan is a graduate student at the University of Maine 's Darling Marine Center in Walpole, Maine. She is working toward her Ph.D. in oceanography and studying the biomechanics of worms in marine mud! She loves math and uses it all the time to to figure out how worms burrow in mud. Check out Kelly's webpage for more information: www.marine.maine.edu/~jumars/Dorgan/Kelly.html .

 

Platform Shoes Forum

Platform Shoes Forum ( www.platformshoes.org ) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to identify educational gaps for youth and provide solutions through community outreach and technology platforms. Erin Brockette Reilly and Vinitha Nair co-founded Platform Shoes Forum with their model program Zoey's Room (www.zoeysroom.com), a safe, social networking website aimed at 10-14 year-old girls to increase their interest in science, technology, engineering and math in a fun and creative community. Platform Shoes Forum continues to use the successful educational model derived from Zoey's Room to meet the new and changing needs of children today through measurable, long-lasting, replicable programs that address the specific needs of a demographic. For more information contact info@platformshoes.org.