Meet Abril Vela, Microsoft YouthSpark Star and Evangelist for Young Women in Tech
Turns out, young women in tech are not unicorns. And Abril Vela is one of those savvy, smart, well spoken, and totally passionate tech girls. She's a junior at the University of Michigan, the founder ...Continue reading
Girls Make Games is the Gaming Camp We Always Wanted
What if there was a summer camp where you not only played video games but also learned how to build them? We 100% would have attended that camp as a kid. According to CNN, 47% of the gaming communi...Continue reading
Elena Salaks’ App Philanthropy for the Masses is About to Revolutionize How We Donate to Charity
Elena Salaks is at it again. Our fav tech girl entrepreneur is launching a Kickstarter Campaign today to crowd fund her passion project, Philanthropy for the Masses - the app that's going to change t...Continue reading
This Year’s Microsoft Imagine Cup Winner Will Take Home All the Glory, Oh & $100K Big Ones
Many of the most successful tech startups began as student dev projects and the Imagine Cup is on the lookout for that next big idea. The Imagine Cup is Microsoft's premier international competition...Continue reading
Teen Action Fair 2017: We Came, We Saw, We Connected with Some Amazing Metiza Girls!
This past Saturday we attended the Gates Foundation's Teen Action Fair 2017. It was an incredible showing of teen ingenuity, passion, and down right talent. With two exciting live performances from ...Continue reading
The Girl Gaze Project is Taking Back the Word ‘Girl’ One Photograph at a Time
Whether or not you're aware of its history, pretty much every human female is familiar with the 'male gaze.' It's a term you may have encountered in an art history class and is basically inescapable i...Continue reading
My Prom was Totally Average and It Still Managed to Make Me Feel Insecure
I don’t consider my prom experience a failure. But looking back it was less than picture perfect. If anything, it was awkward and inescapably average. It also managed to poke at many of my high scho...Continue reading
We’re Doing It Live (on Social) at Teen Action 2017 this Saturday, Follow Along!
Hosted by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Teen Action 2017 is this Saturday, March 18th and we're pretty pumped to be going back this year! The fair is a youth-led celebration showcasing you...Continue reading
Our Fav Tech Entrepreneur Elena Salaks Just Launched A Sassy T-Shirt Line
Aside from her day job at Microsoft and building her new app Philanthropy For The Masses, Elena Salaks has also found time to launch Vasilivna + Co. More of a passion project, Vasilivna + Co is a plai...Continue reading
10 Rockstar Activist Teen Girls Who Nevertheless Persisted
After Senator Elizabeth Warren was silenced yesterday on the Senate floor, a new battle cry was born. Nevertheless, she persisted has taken over social feeds as a powerful statement of strength and pe...Continue reading