The Nerd Girls Website offers “a place where girls and women can celebrate their inner nerd and their femininity,” supporting “a growing, global movement which celebrates smart-girl individuality that’s revolutionizing our future.”

Based on the original Nerd Girl club, founded by Tufts University engineering professor Dr. Karen Panetta to empower her female  students and challenge stereotypes about women in engineering, NerdGirls.com supports  a blog and community forum and offers profiles of the current nerd girls team and their projects.

THINGS THEY’VE DONE

Nerd Girl engineers have solved myriad real world problems in tech fields, transportation, green technologies and more, to improve the lives of others, the environment and the world.  Here are some highlights:

• Lighthouse Beacon: Installed solar technology in an historical landmark
• Thacher Island: Converted homes to use solar power
• The Monkey Project: Created a voice-activated door and reward dispenser for an assistance animal and his human companion
• The Ann E. B. Solar Car Project

For more on the Nerd Girl Projects, click here.

For more information on the current team, click here.

To watch a video introduction to Nerd Girls click here.

To read the 2007 ASEE Prism profile on the Nerd Girls click here.

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Tags: Programs for Girls, Website, Women in Engineering