Boolean Girl

Yesterday, our Instructors got together for introductions and training at Marymount in Ballston! Now just T-minus ONE DAY until Summer Camp 2026 kicks off with Intro to AI, Storytelling in Scratch, micro:bit Robotics, and Intro to Python!

Special thank you to Marymount University for partnering with us again this year for our Arlington Camps!

☀️ We can't wait to see everyone starting TOMORROW! ☀️

We are thrilled to be part of the 2026 Spur Local class of critical local nonprofits! It’s an honor to be selected by community advocates across the region based on our impact and work. With your support, we can continue to make a difference right here, where we live.

Learn more and see the full 2026 Spur Local class here: https://hubs.ly/Q04lM9J_0

☀️ We're getting closer and closer to Summer Camp! ☀️ We are so excited to see old friends again and meet new ones! Over the days leading up to Camp kickoff, we'll be sharing videos some of our instructors made to introduce themselves and welcome campers. In the meantime, you can get to know our 2026 instructors here: https://bit.ly/4gamEDw

For middle schoolers who want to take their artificial intelligence ( ) skills to the next level, we have an all new this summer! Campers will explore the exciting world of AI and machine learning, discovering how AI powers real-world technologies—from voice assistants to self-driving cars—and learning about the positive and negative tradeoffs of AI.

Through hands-on projects, campers will use Machine Learning for Kids, Google Teachable Machine, micro:bit CreateAI, and the Cardboard Robots Teachable micro:bit App to build and train their own machine learning models. Campers learn prompt engineering; how to build good prompts and use them to create AI Art. To balance the creative activities, campers discuss the social and ethical impacts of AI and complete three full AI projects from concept to demo. A highlight of the week is constructing a micro:bit project and bringing it to life with AI-powered gesture recognition.

Want to sign up? The camps below are still open!
Girls Only: July 20-24 Sign Up!
Coed: August 3-7 Sign Up!

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With over 60,000 students and counting, we are increasing our impact on the next generation of coders each year! in 2025, we reached over 14,000 students, with a focus on girls and other underrepresented youth in the DMV (District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia).

✨ Read or download our full Impact Report here: https://bit.ly/3QoyDTu

We are tremendously grateful for the support and hard work of all of our sponsors and partners. They provide a diverse range of support to our mission, including: financial support, event space, volunteers, guidance, and technical support and resources.

Our 2025 Sponsors included:
Amazon.com, Battelle, Arlington County, the Business Women's Giving Circle through the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, Capital Area SIM (Society for Information Management), The Efficiency Group, Topsoe A/S, the Glenn W. Bailey Foundation, the Philip L Graham Fund, U.S. FinTech, and Montgomery County, MD Government.

When you support Boolean Girl, you transform the lives of the thousands of students, teachers and instructors in our programs.

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We started our journey teaching in 2014 with 49 girls in one elementary school in Arlington. We have now reached over 60,000 girls and underrepresented youth throughout the DMV through Camps, Clubhouses, micro:bit for All, and our other programs.

Read our full 2025 report here: https://bit.ly/4vbicc3

In the world of Girl Scouts, the Gold Award is the ultimate achievement, and one only about 3,000 girls–about 6% of Girl Scouts–will receive each year. Kaelyn Hendricks, a junior at Arlington Tech, is one of them. She reached out to Boolean Girl with an idea for a Gold Award project, and we knew it would be something special.

Read the full blog post here: https://bit.ly/43uOaE9

Girl Scouts Nation's Capital

Kaelyn's Clubhouse: A Gold Award Project to Teach Girls STEM In the world of Girl Scouts, the Gold Award is the penultimate achievement, and one only about 3,000 girls–or 5.4%-6% of Girl Scouts–will receive each year. Kaelyn Hendricks, a junior at Arlington Tech, is one of them. She reached out to Boolean Girl with an idea for a Gold Award project, and we...

To be successful in AI and other future-looking technologies, you need fundamental skills. Just like you can't become a lawyer or doctor if you can't read, you can't be an AI creator without knowing how to code. To build a future where AI is safe and accessible for everyone, we need more AI creators.

We offer four camps that will help children learn these fundamentals while also introducing them to the world of AI, developing skills in AI creation, and understanding its social and ethical impacts. Our newest advanced AI camp, Creating & Using AI, is ideal for students who have taken an intro Python class either with Boolean Girl or in school and are eager to go further by writing Python code to create AI applications.

Learn more and sign up here: https://bit.ly/4cYshmt