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Kid Inventor: Ellie Skalla, Invented the game Galactiquest!
Sixth grader Ellie Skala, of Oak Park, Illinois invented a game, entered it in a contest at the Chicago Toy and Game show, in their Young Inventor Challenge. Her idea was picked up by Pressman Games and is available for sale at Target stores this year, 2019! She says,...
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Edmonia Lewis, Black American Sculptor
Mary Edmonia Lewis was a sculptor in America at a time when it was difficult for any woman to be a sculptor, and significantly more difficult for a black woman to do so. Author Kirsten Pai Buick, author of the book Child of the Fire, about Edmonia Lewis, says that...
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Women Inventor’s Placemat!
Have we mentioned the placemat is here? It's here! One day at breakfast, over a year ago, my daughter looked up from her Inventors of the World placemat asked sadly, “Why is there only one woman on this?” I said “There are more than that! I have a whole book of them...
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#1000BlackGirlBooks founder Marley Dias
Representation Matters! Have you heard about Marley Dias? When she was in 6th grade, she wanted to read more books with black girls as the main character, so she started a champaign and set out to find 1000. “I knew I was frustrated by the lack of diversity in the...
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Children’s Books with Characters on the Autism Spectrum
Here at Being Bold, we believe that representation matters! We all need to see ourselves in books and on screens, so we were excited to see this list! The blog What Do We Do All Day has created a list of children's books with characters on the Autism Spectrum, see the...
read moreStatue of Jane Austen coming to Bath!
Bath was chosen as the city since Austen's parents lived there and some of her books are set there. "It will also be good to go a little way to redress the fact that less than 3% of all statues in the UK are of historical, non-royal women," said Mr Crossey, of the...
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Gifts to Encourage Girls in STEM
Here's a list of some great toys and books for girls and boys, to help get kids engaged in STEM. These are tried and true toys that my kids have loved. Rosie Revere, Engineer is a charming picture book about building, failure and trying again, and about what SciGirls...
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On this day in history: Women in Wyoming Territory Get the Vote!
On December 10, 1869, Wyoming became the first American territory to give women the right to vote! You'll notice that's well before the rest of the nation, since nation-wide, American women got the right to vote in 1920, after a very long and very hard fight that...
read moreCecilia Payne: Figured out What Stars Are Made Of
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who was born May 10, 1910 and studied at Cambridge University and Harvard University. She's the person who figured out that stars are mostly made of the lightest two elements - hydrogen...
read moreBeautiful Embroidered Globe for a Girls’ School
If you study women's history, something that comes up a lot is that for centuries, women weren't allowed to learn, either weren't allowed to go to school at all, or once they could go to school, there were limits and certain subjects weren't allowed to be taught. Do...
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