Our Promise, December 2019

Celebration Luncheon This past June, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri hosted its annual Women’s Leadership Network Celebration Luncheon at the Ritz-Carlton St. Louis. More than 150 eastern Missouri G . I . R . L . ( Go-getter , Innovator , Risk-taker , Leader ) TM champions attended the event dedicated to lifting up the next generation of big thinkers, groundbreakers and innovators. Throughout the morning, local business leaders and community supporters engaged with Girl Scout robotics teams who were also in attendance. These teams used the platform to talk about their STEM-related research and findings. A seated lunch followed with Mira Iyer, a 14-year-old Girl Scout, serving as the afternoon’s keynote. Five years ago, Mira helped form the Girl Scout robotics team called P3, and today, they are dominating robotics competitions across the eastern Missouri region. Because of Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri’s robotics program, Mira has had the opportunity to ignite and explore a passion of hers – technology. Although she still has several years of high school to go, Mira knows she eventually wants to be the person controlling the robot that is performing life- saving operations. Like Mira, G . I . R . L . s as young as kindergarten, are engaging in STEM-related activities through Girl Scouts. They learn early in life STEM can take them anywhere they want to go! Girl Scouts is the future STEM workforce pipeline. Last year, Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri supported 92 FIRST® robotics teams, more than any other youth-serving organization in the region.

To learn more about the Women’s Leadership Network, please visit girlscoutsem.org/wln .