STEM Gems

💜🩷💙💚 The 10th Annual STEM Gems Summit with @ATLSciFest + @SpelmanCollege celebrated a decade of impact. Thank you to the volunteers, educators, parents, incredible #WomenInSTEM, sponsors, partners, and the team led by the phenomenal Careshia Moore. 10 years takes a village 💎

Men are more likely than women to use AI at work. Kim Meninger argues it’s not a training gap, it’s a confidence gap rooted in how women have spent their careers building credibility. 🔗 forbes.com/sites/kimmenin… #WomenInAI

At 18, Mia Heller invented a water filter that removes 95% of microplastics. It uses ferrofluid, a reusable magnetic oil, to grab the particles as water flows through, then a magnet pulls them out. She's a 2025 Regeneron ISEF finalist. 💧 🔗 smithsonianmag.com/innovation/thi…

Tendai Moyo turned a teenage frustration into a biotech beauty brand. Ruka Hair just raised $4.5M to bring lab-grown hair extensions designed for curls, coils, and kinks to the U.S. market. 🔗 afrotech.com/black-women-ow…

Only 14% of aerospace engineers are women. On National Women in Aerospace Day, Hannah Swindell, Rhonda Staudt, and Dr. Susan Ying remind us the fix starts long before the job posting. 🔗 aerospacetestinginternational.com/features/the-1… #WomenInAerospace

Dr. Kemi Doll is a gynecologic oncologist using science and storytelling to close the gaps in care that have cost Black women their health and their lives. 🔗 scientificamerican.com/podcast/episod…

At 16, Bohlale Mphahlele invented an earring that secretly photographs attackers, sends distress alerts, and shares the wearer’s live location. She just founded her own company to bring it to market. 🔗 goodthingsguy.com/from-schoolgir… #WomenInSTEM

Gen Z women are building their own computers inside Hello Kitty cases, Polly Pocket shells, and Nintendo lunch boxes. It’s part aesthetic rebellion, part genuine rejection of big tech. And it’s completely taking over.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🔗 russh.com/the-return-of-… #WomenInSTEM

When a woman leaves the hospital after giving birth, the follow-up care largely disappears. The AI filling that gap fails 60% of the time on women’s health tasks. A new coalition launched this week to finally set some standards.​​​​​​ 🔗 forbes.com/sites/geristen… #WomenInAI

Emily Calandrelli, the 100th woman in space, says only 1% of science shows are solo hosted by women. So she made kids’ content instead, and created a generation of little scientists. 🚀​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🔗 northernvirginiamag.com/family/educati… #WomenInSTEM

“I was captured for life by chemistry and by crystals.” #NobelPrize laureate Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin was one of the most outstanding X-ray crystallographers of her time. She determined the structure of penicillin and vitamin B12, and the 3D structure of insulin.

Tahira Reid Smith drew an automated Double Dutch machine at age 8. That sketch won a school competition and eventually became Jump Dreams, a real app-controlled machine she invented as a Penn State engineering professor.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 🔗 afrotech.com/tahira-reid-sm… #WomenInSTEM

A behind-the-scenes look at the 10th Annual STEM Gems Summit: Women Empowering Girls! In partnership with @SpelmanCollege + @ATLSciFest, pre-teen + teen girls spent the day at Spelman meeting STEM-tastic women who showed them what's possible! Learn more: stemgemsbook.com/our-impact/

It's National Black Hole Week, the perfect time to celebrate Katie Bouman, the computer scientist whose work helped humanity capture the first-ever image of a black hole, the supermassive one at the centre of the M87 galaxy, 55 million light years away: time.com/5568063/katie-…

From retail robotics to cancer-fighting nanorobots to a $50 million AI platform, these eight women are shaping the future of AI, robotics and automation. 🤖 These are the types of role models girls need to see: siliconrepublic.com/careers/8-wome… #WomenInSTEM

May is AAPI Heritage Month! From cloning HIV to winning the Fields Medal to stopping cyberbullying at 13, these ten AAPI women in STEM have changed the game across every field imaginable.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💎 🔗 weareadamarie.com/blog/10-aapi-w… #WomenInSTEM

Philosopher Amanda Askell's job at Anthropic is to teach their AI Claude how to behave ethically. Proof that STEM needs deep thinkers, not just coders. 🧠 🔗 timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trendin… #WomenInAI

🎉 Congratulations to the 50 eighth + ninth grade girls who have been selected to participate in the 2026 STEM Gems Summer Camp! ☀️ We can't wait to meet you this summer for an unforgettable, STEM-tastic week of hands-on activities, career exploration, and mindful conversations!

Dr. Ashandra Batiste built a multi-million dollar Houston dental practice staffed entirely by Black women dentists, powered by AI imaging, laser gum therapy, and in-office 3D printing. 🦷 And she’s been dreaming of this since age 11. 🔗 afrotech.com/elite-dental-w…

Happy International Jazz Day! 🎷 Yamilée Toussaint founded STEM From Dance in 2012 with just $4,000, using dance to bring coding, circuitry, and music to girls ages 8-18. She wants to reach 1 million girls by 2032. 💫 🔗 physicstoday.aip.org/news/yamilee-t… #WomenInSTEM

Annie Easley helped launch rockets at NASA with Centaur, a powerful propulsion technology. She started in 1955, before it was NASA. Her winding path took her from pharmacy studies to "human computers" to rocket science: energy.gov/articles/five-… #WomenInSTEM