Rosie's Girls

Rosie’s Girls ® Summer Camp includes a unique  combination of activities that are designed to expose girls to a variety of trades and technical fields, strengthen their own voices, build a sense of community and encourage participants to challenge the expectations our society has for girls and women. The program incorporates the following components:

 

Carpentry
In the carpentry unit, girls learn basic skills such as hammering and sawing, and then progress to increasingly more difficult projects. Girls start by building toolboxes to hold the tools we give them, and the unit culminates in a collaborative community service project that will meet an identified community need. Carpentry runs throughout the three weeks of the program.

Trades
Additional trades blocks during the session introduce participants to the tools, methods, materials and safety techniques used in various other trades areas such as electrical wiring, welding, fire fighting, and bicycle and auto repair. These other trades units last from one to three days to balance young girls’ need for variety with our desire to give the girls adequate time to gain comfort with and mastery of trades skills. 

ARTS
Daily arts activities further encourage          participants to develop their own voices by exploring a range of activities designed to promote individual self-expression. Yoga and dance promote physical movement. Visual arts activities might include silk-screening camp t-shirts, casting plaster masks of each girl’s face or hand, and making collages to represent aspects of themselves.

Sandra Norvell

Rosie's Girls Camp Coordinator

Hard Hatted Women, Inc.

 

Joye Toombs

Program Manager

YWCA Greater Cleveland