OPERATION SMARTSM
These programs to encourage every girl in science, math, and relevant technology. From fixing bikes to using computers, to investigating circuits, its programs have shown that in a non threatening setting and with the right encouragement, every girl can respond to the challenge of making scientific discoveries, developing strategies, and working with tools.
Girls are learning to question, explore, observe, take risks, get dirty, try again, and discover. They're attacking problems with confidence, learning with zest, confronting stereotypes – and aiming higher in all that they do. We need volunteers who will take girls' curiosity seriously, inspire them to ask questions, assume they are astronaut material, and link them to the opportunities to go into outerspace.
Operation SMARTsm consists of three segmented programs each with a slightly different focus: