History

 

• Founded in 2001 by Lauren Tozzi (Class of '02)

• As part of our SGA (Student Government Association), Lauren created the position of Women's Issues Specialist

• This soon evolved to a counsil of students from all four grade levels called the Treatment of Women's Issues in Science and Technology.

 

• TWISTS's first goals: To form links with the three women's clubs at our school: Keyettes, GEMS (mentoring middle school girls) and WISE (mentoring elementary school girls).

• Second goal: Conducted discussion groups with the faculty to hear their concerns and tried to improve ways to get women to become more involved in STEM usiing their input

• SophShop: Sophomore workshop organized in 2001-2002 to introduce girls to all the various techlabs

•  Froshop: Gave freshmen an opportunity to explore the senior techlab options (2002-2003)

• Our Senior College Transitions Workshop has become a tradition at the end of each school year

• Annual Techstravaganza" carnival for elementary and middle school girls. This event has become very successful in previous years reaching over a thousand kids this year (2014). Other mentoring clubs and volunteers at TJ ran booths with hands-on experiments to spark the interests of future scientists. We hosted a panel of speakers who shared their career experiences and the influence that science and technology have had in their lives.