One of the great things about being in the business of empowering girls is connecting with all the great orgs we meet along the way! One of those great orgs is the Illinois based Girls Can’t WHAT? Here’s the scoop on Girls Can’t WHAT? from their website,
The Lemelson-MIT Program is a program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that is dedicated to inspiring and encouraging great inventors through various outreach programs. They recently announced the results of the 2011 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index that were slightly surprising. Well surprising to some, but not to us here at SheHeroes.
Today is the anniversary of one of the most tragic moments in the history of the United States Space Program, the space shuttle Challenger explosion. While the anniversary of the Challenger explosion causes us to pay tribute to all the astronauts that were on the ill-fated tenth voyage of the Challenger, it also gives us […]
Though this may be a subject not all of our young SheHeroes readers are old enough to discuss yet, it still seems worthy of mentioning for moms of teenagers and soon to be teenagers. Some of you may have already heard about Frayser High school in Memphis, TN. What makes this high school so interesting? […]
Update January 23, 2013: Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has lifted a ban that prohibited women from serving in combat. This move opens up thousands of positions. The first woman to officially enlist in the military was a Philadelphian named Loretta Walsh who enlisted in March of 1917 and became the first Yeoman (F) in […]
We here at SheHeroes we love to see women doing amazing things. But if there’s something we love even more, it’s young women doing amazing things! Which is why we had to give a big SheHero shout out to 10-year old Kathryn Aurora Gray of Fredericton, New Brunswick. Kathryn kicked off 2011 by becoming the […]
Last month SheHeroes was honored to find out that AmazingWomenRock.com had listed us as one of 30 Amazing Online Resources To Help Empower Girls. We were honored to both be listed, and to be in such amazing company. The list includes many of our favorite “sisters in arms” in the mission to help empower girls. […]
All you have to do is peruse our videos of the many SheHeroes we have interviewed here to know that there are a million different reasons why we would call someone a SheHero. And one amazing reason would be women who have transformed Personal Pain into Positive Action. Over at the Pixel project they recently […]
For the first time in history The Coast Guard has chosen a woman to lead the academy in Connecticut. Rear Adm. Sandra Stosz will be the first female superintendent of the United States Coast Guard Academy. Stosz will take over when classes open next summer. Adm. Bob Papp, commandant of the Coast Guard, said in […]
