Thread by @ayahbdeir

Yesterday this gentleman on twitter broke my heart with his tweet and it launched me on my first tweetstorm. One of the most effective ways to show girls they are more than clever enough to be scientists and leaders is to show them role models doing it. Here goes... #girlsinstem

https://twitter.com/MatthewHanchard/status/1060642607964057600

This is great: a campaign by @AdCouncil that showcases women in #STEM shecanstem.com @shecanSTEM

and this: an event honoring Reshma Saujani founder of @girlswhocode featuring some incredibly prominent women leaders vogue.com/article/anna-w… @GirlsWhoCode @voguemagazine

and this @adafruit founder Limor Fried, MIT graduate, entrepreneur and builder of an incredible open source hardware education business

and this: Donna Strickland, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. Third woman in almost 120 years unfortunately, but still fortune.com/2018/10/16/nob…

and this. Yours truly, founder of @littleBits, an education company with a mission to inspire kids to be inventors and creators, and passionate advocate for getting girls into STEM bloomberg.com/news/videos/20… @business

and this: a stunning and talented model @karliekloss turned activist that is creating venues for girls to learn how to code vogue.com/article/karlie… @kodewithklossy

and this @BlackGirlsCode, founded by @6Gems, a very special non profit that focuses on underserved girls and minorities that has been striking deals and creating creative spaces in Google among others fastcompany.com/40589933/black…

and this: Amy poehler who created @smrtgrls as a platform to support girls that are badass hollywoodreporter.com/news/amy-poehl…

and finally my girl crush: @SimoneGiertz: an engineer, inventor, creator, TV show host, comedian, and all around inspiring lady that is just killing it with her new kickstarter romantic electronics project techcrunch.com/2018/10/23/sim…

Feel free to comment with any others...

Will keep adding. Let's make this the mother of all lists!

and this: The amazing Allie Weber @RobotMakerGirl. Inventor, maker, host of @mythbusters junior youtube.com/c/TechnicAllie…

and this: Gwynne Shotwell, President of @SpaceX cnbc.com/2018/08/02/spa… cc @GwynneShotwell

and this: Dr. Yari Collado-Vega who forecasts weather in space! nbcnews.com/news/latino/ho…

and this: AnnMarie Thomas, MIT and Caltech Mechanical + Ocean Engineer, Professor, and founder of Playful Learning Lab and of cool squishy things!

and this: @indyfromspace, Space Archaeologist who uses satellite imagery to discover ancient egyptian ruins. I saw her spar with original IndianaJones Harrison Ford! ted.com/talks/sarah_pa…

and this: @jessicabanks : Mechanical Engineer, MIT graduate, founder of physics-bending furniture company @RockPaperRobot ibtimes.com/watch-how-star… #robotics

and this: @valerie_mbj and @braintwist2112 and @KariByron hosts in @MythBusters JR!

and this: @KwolekStephanie amazing chemist who "founded" Kevlar en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie…

and this France Cordova who leads the @NSF @PresCordova