About

IGNITE’s mission is to empower girls to succeed in high-tech, science, and engineering careers.

IGNITE works closely with schools across the globe to connect professional women mentors with girls and young women and to provide them with information on College Scholarships, Student Internships, Job Shadow opportunities, Interactive "hands-on" Workshops and Community Resources.

IGNITE’s goal is bring these programs and learning opportunities into every middle school, high school, and college in the United States and around the world and bring them on board as an IGNITE Member School.

Our mission is to start IGNITE Chapters in every Middle School, High School, College, and Technical School around the world!

IGNITE Chapters are expanding and growing their IGNITE Program opportunities every day!

Segment breakdown of the girls and young women IGNITE reaches:
Young Girls & Women
11-14 (middle school)
15-16 (high school)
17-19 (high school to graduation)
18- 21 (college years)
25+ years old (entering trade/workforce)

When IGNITE started 10 years ago in the Seattle Public School system, the average number of girls in math and technology classes was dismal (an average of 10 or 12 boys to 1 girl).

Today, the participation in the IGNITE program has exploded!

The IGNITE Newsletter will be used to communicate with the entire Membership of the organization. Our new IGNITE Press Releases, Organization Milestones, Articles of Interest and "Best Tips & Practices" will be ongoing topics of discussion.

Sign up for this Newsletter distribution and keep up on our progress!

The main goal of the Steering Committee is to blanket the United States with IGNITE Chapters.

To accomplish this goal we are enlisting your help to evangelize the organization of Chapters in each of the 50 states. This is a ground floor opportunity to be influential in the work of IGNITE and become part of the founding circle of this grass roots movement to bring more women into the high tech, engineering and science fields.

We meet online and by phone the last Tuesday of every month starting in September.