About STEM Girls Build LA
STEM Academy of Hollywood is a public pilot school in Hollywood. All of our students focus on either career pathway, medicine or engineering, during high school, preparing for the next generation of STEM jobs. In a low income neighborhood, with more than 90% of our students on free and reduced lunch, many of us are preparing to be the first in our families to graduate from high school or go college. Many of us are Latinx, but we also boast Armenian American, African American, Korean American, Taiwanese American, and Thai American students. We are the bright, beautiful, motivated, and passionate female youth of Hollywood in 2017.
The STEM Girls Build LA Team has been active since 2015, when Ms. Hall (our advisor - HI MISS HALL!!) and just 6 girls began to plan big for a series of events targeted at undocumented students. We wanted to make an impact, and pushed ourselves to put together our first event - a health fair.
The Health Fair was a grand success - testing 40 people for HIV, giving away 50 medical kits, taking the blood pressure of more than 80 people, and attracting more than 100 students and family members! Interest in the team began to grow rapidly after the first event - the group ballooned to over 20 members, and by the conclusion of the next two events (a college fair and a mental wellness event), we realized we were going to need more events, and more t-shirts!
In the years since, we have continued the Health Fair, and added on additional events based on student need, including Mental Health Fairs, Healthy Relationship Events, a screening of Wonder Woman, and De-Stress Day! Having sent all of our founding members off to college, our 2018-2019 team is focused on helping all students get the resources and information they need to make healthy, self-aware choices. We have over 40 student members, including freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and in addition to the Youth Policy Institute, Kaiser Permanente and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, we are partnering with Gateways Hospital & Mental Health Center and the UCLA Peer Health Exchange!
The STEM Girls Build LA Team has been active since 2015, when Ms. Hall (our advisor - HI MISS HALL!!) and just 6 girls began to plan big for a series of events targeted at undocumented students. We wanted to make an impact, and pushed ourselves to put together our first event - a health fair.
The Health Fair was a grand success - testing 40 people for HIV, giving away 50 medical kits, taking the blood pressure of more than 80 people, and attracting more than 100 students and family members! Interest in the team began to grow rapidly after the first event - the group ballooned to over 20 members, and by the conclusion of the next two events (a college fair and a mental wellness event), we realized we were going to need more events, and more t-shirts!
In the years since, we have continued the Health Fair, and added on additional events based on student need, including Mental Health Fairs, Healthy Relationship Events, a screening of Wonder Woman, and De-Stress Day! Having sent all of our founding members off to college, our 2018-2019 team is focused on helping all students get the resources and information they need to make healthy, self-aware choices. We have over 40 student members, including freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, and in addition to the Youth Policy Institute, Kaiser Permanente and the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, we are partnering with Gateways Hospital & Mental Health Center and the UCLA Peer Health Exchange!
