Connecticut River Museum Supporting Girls Enrichment

ESSEX, CT — The Connecticut River Museum is offering a FREE STEAMgirls virtual program to serve girls, ages 10-16, interested in studying the academic areas of STEAM: Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math. Once monthly, after school for a four-month period, STEAMgirls participants meet and speak with accomplished young women, learning first-hand about the career successes women are experiencing in all areas of STEAM; providing young girls with knowledge that may ignite their passion for the future.

On Thursday, April 15, at 4:30 the STEAMgirls Series will be featuring: Ming Thompson, thanks to a generous grant through The Petit Family Foundation. Click here to register for this virtual event.

Ming Thompson is an architect, designer, and co-founder of Atelier Cho Thompson, a New Haven- and San Francisco-based multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, interiors, graphics, and strategy. ACT’s work frequently blurs the boundaries between typologies, as they draw inspiration from their work in schools, museums, offices, restaurants, and homes around the world. Ming was a recipient of the AIA Young Architect Award in 2020, and her firm has been the recipient of numerous national and regional design honors. Educated at Yale College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Ming has taught at the California College of the Arts and has served on design juries around the U.S. Ming is a first-year advisor at Yale and serves on the board of Yale-China.
More series information; May 6, will feature Erica Cirino, June 10, will feature Gabriel Chevalier and June 22, will feature Shani Mensing. For more information go to https://ctrivermuseum.org/.