Working with local Girl Scout councils around the country,
Sigma Gamma Rho’s alumnae chapters have made GSUSA’s Imagine Engineering initiative,
funded by the National Science Foundation, a focus of the sorority’s annual
National Youth Symposium.
“Girl Scouting and Sigma Gamma Rho have the same goal: to
build the nation’s future leaders by helping girls dream big and accomplish
much today,” said GSUSA Chief Executive Officer Anna Maria Chávez. “We are
delighted to be part of this partnership to help girls do great things in
critical fields such as science, technology, engineering and math.”
“Response to Imagine Engineering has been terrific,” said Sigma
Gamma Rho National President Bonita Herring. “We surveyed 250 girls who took
part in the initiative, and more than two thirds of them said they now understood
how ‘someone like me’ could become an engineer.”
“We will not only expand our efforts with this initiative, but
we will reach out to girls nationwide in
our communities with a combination of our own healthy living program, Project
Reassurance, and the Girl Scouts’ initiative for middle-school girls on healthy
relationships and bullying,” Herring said. “Through this continued partnership,
we are going to do great things together for girls.”