Greenlight for Girls

Dubai Knowledge Park is huge and includes many different universities, institutes and the Conference Center, where we spent our day, thanks to the 'Greenlight for Girls'. This project was started by Melissa Rancourt, who wanted to give young girls an opportunity to develop their interests and strengths in STEM; short for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Now it is spreading worldwide and for the first time in Dubai.

On October 29, 2019, Fr. Wingrich, Cecilia and I participated in this event where girls from different schools met and got to do experiments together. There were three in my group. My favorite experiment of theirs was when we made the bath bomb because we got to choose what color and scent it could be.

In my group, we started with airplanes and paper airplanes. It was interesting to have to think about how to modify today's airplanes to make them more environmentally friendly. The paper airplane race that followed was also a lot of fun. And who would have thought that you only need a battery, a small motor and wheels or a propeller to build a small robot?

But even though we were in different groups, we had a great experience. At the end, the leader Melissa Rancourt passed on inspiring words to us, especially "Nothing is impossible!"

Text: Amina, 7b and Cecilia, 11a