Join a team

• Are you a high school girl in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in robotics? Check out The Missfits team website!

• Based elsewhere in the world? Search for teams and events near you on the FIRST website.

• Want to become a team mentor? Learn more here.

Get involved with STEM

Summer camps, online classes, year-round-programs, and more!

• Alexa Café: Inspired by iD Tech co-founder Alexa Ingram-Cauchi, their all-girls program blends tech, entrepreneurship, and social impact in a fresh, café-like setting. Alexa Café courses are endorsed by SWE, the Society of Women Engineers.

• Black Girls Code: A non-profit organization whose mission is to teach girls of color to become digital creators and technology leaders.

• Code with Google: Code with Google helps to ensure that every student has access to the collaborative, coding, and technical skills that unlock opportunities in the classroom and beyond–no matter what their future goals may be. It brings together Google's free curriculum and programs that build coding skills—from beginner level to advanced—to help students succeed.

• Django Girls: A non-profit organization and a community that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support.

• Girls Garage: A nonprofit design and building program and dedicated workspace for girls and female-identifying youth ages 9-18. Through classes in carpentry, welding, architecture, and activist art, they support and equip a community of fearless girls who are building the world they want to see.

• Girls in Tech: A global non-profit that works to put an end to gender inequality in high-tech industries and startups. They offer everything from coding courses to bootcamps to hackathons and startup competitions no matter age or profession. It is Girls in Tech’s mission to support women with the access and community they need to succeed in tech. 

• Girls Who Code: An international nonprofit working to close the gender gap in the technology sector. Its programs work to educate, inspire, and equip high school girls with the skills and resources to pursue opportunities in computing fields.

• Girlstart: Girlstart’s mission is to increase girls’ interest and engagement in STEM through innovative, nationally-recognized informal STEM education programs. Through its comprehensive programming, Girlstart provides a year-round, intensive suite of STEM education programs for K-12 girls.

• iD Tech Camps: iD Tech is a leader in summer STEM education programs for students ages 6–18. Their mission is to develop and deliver the highest quality, most inspiring, and inventive technology experiences to the next generation of visionaries—one student at a time.

• Kode With Klossy: Kode With Klossy creates learning experiences and opportunities for young women that increase their confidence and inspire them to pursue their passions in a technology driven world.

• Technovation: A global tech education nonprofit that empowers girls and families to become leaders, creators and problem-solvers. They offer two programs – Technovation Girls and Technovation Families – which bring kids and adults together to solve big problems in their communities.

Find your community

Connect with fellow women in STEM through these organizations and networks:

• 500 Women Scientists: The vision of 500 women scientists is to be the foremost organization for the transformation of leadership, diversity, and public engagement in science.

• AnitaB.org: At AnitaB.org, they envision a future where the people who imagine and build technology mirror the people and societies for whom they build it. They connect, inspire, and guide women in computing, and organizations that view technology innovation as a strategic imperative.

• AWIS (Association for Women in Science): AWIS is a global network that inspires bold leadership, research, and solutions that advance women in STEM, spark innovation, promote organizational success and drive systemic change.

• Million Women Mentors:  A national and global movement to spark the interest and confidence in women and girls to pursue STEM careers and leadership opportunities through the power of mentoring.

• The New York Academy of Sciences’ 1000 Girls, 1000 Futures: A groundbreaking initiative designed to engage young women interested in science, technology, engineering, and math, and advance their pursuit of STEM careers through mentoring and 21st-century skills development.

• Scientista: A national organization that empowers pre-professional women in STEM through content, communities, and conferences. Currently the largest network of campus women across STEM disciplines, Scientista serves to connect all communities of women in STEM at campuses across the nation, giving such important organizations more visibility and resources, and building a strong, cohesive network of women in science that can act as one voice.

• she++: A nonprofit organization that works to empower underrepresented groups in technology by dismantling negative stereotypes surrounding technical careers. They aim to dispel the misconception that computer science is not a career for women and minorities by rebranding what it means to be a technologist.

• Society of Women Engineers: SWE is the driving force that establishes engineering as a highly desirable career aspiration for women. SWE empowers women to succeed and advance in those aspirations and be recognized for their life-changing contributions and achievements as engineers and leaders.