Operation One STEM at a Time

Excited to share more about this morning’s session Operation Starry Circuits partnered with the The Creative Coast and sponsored by Chibitronics !!!!

Starting the week of with news...Excited to share a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! Operation One STEM at a Time (Operation One STEM at a Time) is now an OFFICIAL PROGRAM PAR...TNER with the Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia!! I am so excited to bring innovative STEM activities and programs to ambitious Scouts ALL ACROSS the Peach State!!! Including all 159 counties in Georgia, counties in South Carolina and one county in Alabama! 5 years ago when I started this platform in my dorm at Spelman College, I couldn’t even imagine that one year of activities with kids would grow into an opportunity to educate, enlighten and empower across our state and with one of the biggest youth organizations in the country at that! I thank God for enstilling the vision in me and for helping me see it through! Exposure leads to expansion -Jess Wynn and by exposing these phenomenal young women to STEM, I hope that I will aid in creating the next generation of innovators, inventors , scientists, engineers , etc! Let’s get ready! #onestematatime

Was invited to spend the day with the Engineering Explorer Post Program hosted by Thomas and Hutton Engineering! I had the opportunity to tell the current expl...orers about my time in the program as an Engineering Explorer with Thomas & Hutton (2013 graduate) and how it inspired me to pursue STEM/engineering! Always love seeing the advisor who pushed me to try Engineering/take a leap of faithBarbara Rogers Foley! Fun Fact: I didn’t want to be an engineer at all! Who knew limited space in one program would lead me to a future passion/ career/organization!

Operation One STEM at a Time is teaming up with The Creative Coast for a fun, free, virtual STEM workshop for kids! Have your child sign up for Operation: St...arry Circuits! Students will learn the science of circuitry and how it works to create an electric connection! With my guidance, participants will then use materials (paper cards, stickers, copper tape, battery, and binder clip) MAILED TO THEM, to create three projects: a light-up shining star card, a cupcake card, and a glowing paper helicopter. Age Groups: 4th to 8th grade students When: Saturday, May 8th 10am - 11:30a Where: Via Zoom Cost to Participate: Free Sign-up deadline: Tuesday, April 20th Limited Capacity of 12 students

Happy International Women’s Day! Spelman gave me and many others A Choice to change the world and my choice to change the world started with the founding of... Operation One STEM at a Time ,ensuring that little girls that look like me are able to have that same choice one day to believe they can be that engineer, scientist, artist etc. Giving then the audacity to dream! #internationalwomensday2021 #Womeninstem #futurewomenimstem #girlsruntheworld

This week we will host our second GRIT Jr., an hour-long event during which a featured guest speaks with Savannah's youth on the story of how and why they becam...e an entrepreneur or innovator. We are excited to share that this Wednesday, March 10th, at 10:30a, Ambria Berksteiner will speak to students in Chatham County about why she became an engineer and show them how to build a physical product. If you are a local educator and would like your students to participate, please follow this link for details on how to participate: https://thecreativecoast.org//grit-jr-ft-amrbia-berksteiner About Ambria: Ambria Berksteiner is a stellar Industrial Engineer who in 2017 was crowned Miss Savannah USA. As Miss Savannah, Ambria represented the city at the 2017 Miss Georgia USA Scholarship Pageant. Ambria’s passion for STEM has been reflected in her education and activities. Berksteiner graduated from the dual degree engineering program at Spelman College and majored in mathematics as well. She created and founded Operation One STEM at a Time while at Spelman College to mentor young African American girls who are interested in STEM-related careers. Ambria continues to work effortlessly to make STEM accessible and enjoyable for girls in the Savannah-Chatham Metro area and beyond.

STEM Instructor Saturdays! Thank you to the Georgia Institute of Technology CEISMC Department (Center for Education: Integrating Science, Mathematics & Computi...ng) for the invitation to host/teach a diverse series of STEAM workshops for K-12 students around the country! Finding new ways to enrich and mentor students thorough the community has given me the opportunity to continue to Educate, Enlighten, and Empower! Check out some snap shots of my kids and a clip of what we participated in this past Saturday!

Our Founder, Ambria Berksteiner will be a guest on the Mia talks web show (Hosted by Mia Mance) this Wednesday! Tune in as she will be discussing the organization and her involvement as a contestant In Savannah Chatham CASA Dancing with the Stars!

Girls can CODE too! Operation One STEM at a Time meets The Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia Troop 30511 (Savannah)! I had a GREAT time helping Troop 30511 earn ...their COMPUTER CODING BADGES! I will be helping them earn their STEM Explorer Badge as well This was my FIRST in person session since the beginning of the pandemic and it was great!! They had to create a code that could get their blindfolded teammate from one part of Forsyth Park to the Fountain! Look out world new coders coming to town! #girlscode #girlsinstem #onestematatime

Over 1100 STEM BOOKS later and STILL COUNTING !!! (My goal is 5000) The #BluePRINTStoSTEM campaign is well under way! This is a literacy campaign I launche...d in July to educate, enlighten & empower my community through STEM literacy! Thank you to all of my supporters & donors (everyone will be listed after distribution) ! Your efforts and contributions have made this campaign a success! STAY TUNED FOR THE FINAL PHASE IN THIS CAMPAIGN....... **if you wish to donate please email me at [email protected] or [email protected] #oneSTEMatatime #STEMEducation

This episode of The STEM Files will take us to galaxies far and wide! Join us TOMORROW in this special 2-part conversation and Rocket building workshop to meet Shavonti Archer Founder of @systematicmotivation! While not performing the duties of a Transformer Engineer, Shavonti mentors the Youth to pursue STEM careers by blasting off & sending them into STEM orbit introducing them to all of the vast careers that STEM has to offer! M Tune in tomorrow on Instagram live (@operationinestematatime) at 8pm EST/7pm CT! #womeninstem #Blastoff #onestematatime #systematicmotivation #STEM #education #NASA #OUTERSPACE #engineering

Operation One STEM at a Time is proud to be a Community Partner with the Engineering Explorer Post Program! (http://internet.savannah.chatham.k12.ga.us//Explor...erPost.a) Today we donated STEM goodies to the 2019-2020 Explorer Post cohort! The apparel and goodies were courtesy of Wear Alpha, Thomas & Hutton, & Savannah Technical College! A subsidiary of the Boy Scouts of Coastal Georgia, this program , which I had the honor of being apart of in 2013 as a high school senior, helps high school aged students pursue their career interests . The Explorer Post Program partners with community volunteers, organizations and businesses to help make this possible!