Physics Outreach

The mission of GSI is to motivate, empower, and interest students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade in developing the skills they need to pursue careers in science. University students and professors act as mentors and provide a context for exploring and understanding the various disciplines of science through hands-on activities in a laboratory environment. Through student scientific-engagement and parental awareness, Girls’ Science Investigations strives to close the gap in science found between males and females today. GSI was founded in 2007 as Girls’ Science Investigations to close the gender gap in science. All are welcome to attend and volunteer.

We develop and incubate open source and disruptive projects that seek to address the most pressing big picture challenges. To navigate such an ambitious mission, we combine interdisciplinary frameworks on holistic thinking to understand complex problems, propose and build solutions designed to catalyze transformational change. We leverage emerging technologies in systems that can harness the power of human collaboration.

Our mission is to provide a decentralized space to research and produce open source projects that represent innovative approaches to complex global challenges. We constantly challenge our processes on how to scale collaboration and use collective intelligence to pursue bold, paradigm-shifting projects.

With an overarching goal to encourage and support promising young scholars to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math, Yale Pathways to Science opens the door for middle and high school students to explore STEM at Yale University. The more than 1,800 Pathways to Science Scholars are considered the youngest members of Yale’s scientific community and are invited to Yale’s campus throughout the year for special events, academic lectures, demonstrations, laboratory visits, and research opportunities. Once accepted into the program, students are invited to attend more than 150 different programs and events annually, choosing to participate in the opportunities that interest them most. In the past, students have viewed the cosmos at Yale’s state-of-the-art planetarium, launched rockets, built telescopes, examined brain specimens with Yale neuroscientists, and much more.

We as an organization aim to ignite scientific engagement across diverse communities and train effective science communicators. To this end, we speak about science at venues ranging from libraries to local bars across New Haven and beyond. As Yale graduate and professional students and postdoctoral scholars, we have a responsibility to make science accessible to the general public, especially to under-served communities. We believe that anyone can engage with science and use it in their lives.