Bringing The Love of STEM to All Girls
Conversation with Mara Celier
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Founder and Executive Director Maria Celier
Today show is a conversation with María Célérier, founder and Executive Director of the foundation “Kids Vission”. They main mission is to engage girls into STEM education. They started with the vision that that girls in Silicon Valley need to know how STEAM is applied in real life, and suggested offering girls in 3rd, 4th, and 5th grades an after school program that would show them how some of the most innovative companies in the Valley apply STEAM. This program could is primarily funded by several high-tech companies and hosts inside their headquarters, where employees from different companies volunteer as mentors and role models for leadership skills and STEAM-related careers.
Celier earned a Master of Business Administration at HEC-Paris and a Bachelor of International Relations at the Universidad de las Americas-Puebla. Her job experience in the Bay Area has been focused on helping children, youth and adults to improve their lives through education–at Renaissance helping adults to start their own businesses, at JobTrain helping youth to graduate from high school and to find jobs, and at Kids’ Vision empowering girls to learn STEM.
The girl in the left of the image represents a girl who has been in the program. The girl in the right represents many participants before they start kids’ vision program
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I listened to this entire interview last night, the last half of it twice. What a fabulous initiative!! May Maria QUADRUPLE the number of girls and parents she can reach this year.
What can we all do to help her grow? Let me know I will spread the word. Wishing I lived on peninsula….