With a goal of increasing young girls’ awareness around renewable energy, Pink Space Theory launched the Solar Design Stars program this month at Fred Lynn Middle School in Prince William County.

VIDEO: DUMFRIES, Va. (7News) — 7News was there on Tuesday when a group of girls at Potomac Middle School in Dumfries finalized the wind turbines they were building as part of an after-school program on green energy. The seven-week-long program, “Girl Power—Intro to Green Energy”, was put together by a nonprofit group called Pink Space Theory with the support of a $7,500 grant from Dominion Energy.

Science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM as it’s been commonly referred, have widely been male-dominated industries…

Art doesn’t have to be limited to paper, canvas, pencil, and paint; our world is a digital one and so it only makes sense that we include digital art in our art classes. Teaching our children digital art and design skills… 

Makerspaces are a vast asset in education as they allow people to become more than consumers of technology. Instead, these spaces allow people …