Back to School
The smell of pumpkin spice is in the air, signaling that it’s time for students to go back to school. It’s an exciting time for Boundless Brilliance, as we’ve spent the summer preparing for the fall semester. We’ll be back in classrooms delivering our fun, engaging, and educational hands-on STEM workshops for students grades kindergarten-6th.
Check out our YouTube page for examples of our energizing activities. We provide supplies lists so you can follow along and do them at home!
Boundless Brilliance Welcomes a New Director of Programs & Curriculum
Katie Wolber started working with Boundless Brilliance in May of 2020. She originally joined as a presenter, and was excited about the goal of empowering young women to believe that they can do anything they put their minds to. In August of 2020, Katie began creating videos for the Boundless Brilliance YouTube Channel. As of July 2022, she stepped into the role of Director of Programs and Curriculum for Boundless Brilliance. She manages volunteers, supports our college chapters, and oversees our social media and website, as well as many other tasks! Learn more about Katie’s previous role in the video below.
Katie is a recent graduate of Occidental College and plans to pursue a master’s in secondary education. She served as a virtual teaching assistant for a 9th grade English class at a high school in Denver, as well as an in-person teaching assistant for multiple classes at a school in Vienna, Austria. Katie loves working with students and empowering them to pursue their passions, and has found a passion for video creation and sharing these empowering messages with young girls. While with Boundless Brilliance as the social content manager, she learned how to lead a team and manage volunteers. She is excited to continue growing Boundless Brilliance and sharing BB’s message and resources with the world!
Volunteer Highlight: Professor Chrissie Lee
Chrissie Lee is an Adjunct Professor of Biology at Orange Coast College with research experience in academia, government, and private industry. Her passion for science and education led her to Boundless Brilliance in the beginning of 2022, where she currently searches for grant opportunities and helps with grant writing. She believes science should be for everyone, and has confidence that her work with Boundless Brilliance will lead to a more equitable world for her own children.
We have a wide array of volunteer opportunities. If you are interested in volunteering with Boundless Brilliance, contact us at info@boundlessbrilliance.org
Feedback Needed! STEM Education For Special Needs Students Initiative
Are you the parent or guardian of a child who is neurodiverse or has mental/learning disabilities?
If so, we would love to hear from you, and hope that you will consider participating in our upcoming Focus Group. We would like to learn more about how your child is able to access science/STEM education, whether or not you find it adequate, and if there are any perceived challenges you have found that make it difficult for them to engage with and understand these lessons.
Boundless Brilliance has recently launched an initiative that is focused on developing quality and impactful supplemental STEM curriculum for Special Needs students. This initiative aligns with our goal of helping to ensure that STEM becomes more accessible and inclusive.
You can access the SURVEY for our Focus Group HERE.
If you have any questions, please contact us at info@boundlessbrilliance.org
Apply for the STUDENT Position on Boundless Brilliance Board of Directors!
Consider joining the Board of Directors of Boundless Brilliance. We are currently seeking applicants for our STUDENT member seat on the Board. This seat is only open to current undergraduate and graduate students.
The appointed student member will have to serve a one-year term.
By joining the Board of Directors, you will be helping to ensure that Boundless Brilliance will be able to carry out its mission — educating, empowering, and engaging students in order to close the gender gap in STEM.
What We Are Seeking:
• Current undergraduate or graduate student
• Majoring in or interested in STEM
• Passionate about diversity, inclusion, education, and girls’/women’s empowerment
• Community service experience
We are especially looking for individuals who are particularly passionate about women and girls’ empowerment, diversity and inclusion, STEM/science, and education.
Specific Experience: Any of the following specific experience would be of great benefit to the Board of Directors:
• Education (tutoring, serving as a TA, or majoring in STEM)
• Leadership (campus groups, special projects, etc.)
• Excellent communication skills (written & verbal)
• Technology savvy
• Experience helping to plan events, fundraisers, etc.
To Apply: If interested in applying, please submit a resume to info@boundlessbrilliance.org
The Boundless Brilliance YouTube channel is a unique resource with engaging and educational content that is readily accessible to all young learners globally.
We provide a plethora of videos, including those that showcase STEM experiments and activities that young learners can follow along with at home, as well as those that focus on social and emotional learning. We also provide professional and personal development resources for college-age students and early career professionals.
We provide a materials list for each STEM experiment that includes supplies that one can readily find at home.
Do you ever feel like it’s hard to pull something towards you? As if there is something pushing in the opposite direction? Well, that invisible force has a name: drag. You can check out our video “What is Drag? | Easy Physics Experiment for Kids!” and learn all about it.
Please be sure to Like our videos, Share, and Subscribe so you don’t miss any of our new engaging content.
STEMinista Mentoring Program
Boundless Brilliance’s commitment to impacting the STEM workforce means that we focus on both elementary students and college students who are entering the field. For this reason, our programming includes internships, professional development and leadership training, mentoring, and participation in a life-long Alumni Network. This past year, we were excited to launch a mentorship program in partnership with STEMinista. Jasmine Gruia-Gray and Wendy Harstock were critical in developing this partnership.
Etsy Shop
Be sure to check out the Boundless Brilliance Etsy shop for wonderful gifts for the future STEM leaders in your life or grab something for yourself. Our Etsy shop features everything from shirts and mugs to computer cases and crewnecks!
All proceeds from the store go toward supporting our programs.
Shop HERE.
Amazon Smile
Did you know that Boundless Brilliance is listed on AmazonSmile? Next time you shop on Amazon, select Boundless Brilliance as your charity of choice at the checkout! Your price will stay the same, but Amazon will make a donation worth 0.5% of the purchase amount to support our work to increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM.
