Celebrate the end of the school year with an exciting afternoon of STEM exploration aboard the historic USS Hornet Museum.

Families with a girl enrolled in a Scientific Adventures fr Girls (SAfG) program are invited to join us for a fun end-of-school-year STEM celebration with the SAfG community!

🎟 Free Event  — RSVP using the QR code or link on the flyer.

Christina Koch’s journey proves that the "hard path" is often the one that leads to the most extraordinary heights. By deliberately seeking out the world’s most punishing environments—from the frozen isolation of the South Pole to the vertical faces of ice climbs—she transformed every obstacle into a training ground for the impossible. This determination and confidence are what we instill in our girls at SAfG (Scientific Adventures for Girls).

Her historic 328-day mission and the first all-female spacewalks were not just feats of luck, but the direct rewards of a lifetime spent embracing challenges that others might avoid. Her story is a powerful reminder that when you meet your fears with relentless hard work and technical discipline, you do not just achieve your dreams; you redefine what is possible for all of humanity.

Get ready to build your own moving machine! In this fun, hands-on STEM activity, kids will explore how a wheel and axle work together to make movement easier and smoother. Using simple materials found at home, you’ll create a mini rolling system and see how wheels help reduce friction—so objects can move with less effort. As you build and test your creation, you’ll discover how this simple machine is used in everyday things like cars, bikes, and carts, and how engineers use it to solve real-world problems. Let’s try it out!

Discover how a wedge works in this fun, hands-on STEM activity! Kids will explore how this simple machine helps split, cut, or hold objects in place.

A wedge is like two ramps (inclined planes) put together, forming a sharp edge that pushes material apart. Using simple materials like a plastic knife and playdough, kids will see how pressing down concentrates force at the edge, causing the material to separate.

As they experiment, they’ll uncover how wedges are used in everyday tools like knives, axes, nails, and doorstops—let’s try this out!