Girl Empowerment Summer Camp Comes To Silver Spring

SILVER SPRING, MD — Rising sixth through tenth grade girls are invited to participate in "Girl-Powered: Changemakers Camp" in Silver Spring from July 31 to August 4 this summer. This week-long exploration focuses on self-discovery and building girl-positive communities.

Lindsey Turnbull of MissHeardMedia is running the camp at Catylator Makerspace on Georgia Avenue, owned by Stephen Morris.

“Morris teaches the girls some of the technology and I teach the leadership bit and the girl-empowerment bit," Turnbull told Source of the Spring.

Girls will learn from hands-on activities in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math), and talk with members of the local arts, business, and political communities.

“We also had the idea to bring in a ton of people from the community so that the girls could meet women business owners and women politicians and women leaders from the local area who could teach a little bit of their expertise, whether it’s art or yoga or [to] tell their story of how they got into office," Turnbull said.

The main take-aways from this camp include: greater self-esteem; community service; connections with community members; safe space for girls to learn, explore and connect; increased leadership skills; custom made journals and self-expression tools; and practice supporting one another in teams.

The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Friday. Five days of camp is $445. You can enroll here.

Check out the Source of the Spring article here.

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