UArizona Phoenix campus hosts Go Girl Scouts Go STEAM Camp

May 4, 2023

(From left) Kiara Kuykendall and Rowan Dominguez take a break from the activity tables to pose with Wilma and Wilbur Wildcat during the Go Girl Scouts Go STEAM Camp in the Virginia G. Piper Auditorium at the Phoenix Bioscience Core on April 29.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences and the College of Medicine – Phoenix office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion hosted the inaugural Go Girl Scouts Go STEAM Camp. The event was held in the Virginia G. Piper Auditorium on the Phoenix Bioscience Core and included a variety of hands-on activities designed to teach the children about Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Medicine – STEAM.

More than 50 scouts and their troop leaders attended the event and participated in activities provided by students and faculty from the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Women in Medicine and Science, the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy.

“We are so grateful for the tremendous support from our faculty and students, and also our community partners, the Arizona SciTech Institute and Cox Communications, to create such an engaging and fun event,” said Caroline Berger, director of corporate and community relations at UArizona Health Sciences. “Our goal is to encourage STEAM learning at an early age and provide these future innovators with the opportunity to meet individuals, like our faculty and students, who are such inspiring examples of ‘if they can dream it, they can be it.’”

A young female medical student leans over a round table talking with a group of girl scouts.
Three female pharmacy students set at a table each facing a girl scout doing an activity with them.
Two young girl scouts in uniforms sit at a table doing an anotomic 3-D frog puzzle.
A young woman and her mother stand at an activity table helping a young girl scout.
Two brown-skinned young girls in girl scout uniforms smile and hold up decorated rice cakes.
A large room filled with activity tables, volunteers and girl scouts.
A young girl scout with dark hari in a ponytail pours liquid into a container at an activity table.
A young boy along with two women look into a glass display case filled with medical items.
Four young women in scrubs, all medical students, sit at an activity table smiling.
Young girls sit at an activity table with cups of liquid extracting DNA from strawberries.
Two young girl scouts pose outside with two female medical students wearing white coats.
A young girl scout leans over looking closely at a green robot.
A middle-aged woman with dark brown hair stands next to several girl scouts explaining a display at a table.
Five female and one male pharmacy students sit at an activity table smiling.
A young girl scout in uniform stands at an activity table with her mom behind her listening to a volunteer.
A big room filled with activity tables, girl scouts and adults all engaged with each other.
A young girl scout works with a volunteer at an activity table as her mother watches.