​Imagine a day of fun, exploration and empowerment for girls.

​On October 6th at Santa Clara University we held our third annual spectacular Girl's Festival, a day-long celebration of girl power and potential!

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Highlights of Girls' Festival 2016

Over 5,000 Bay Area girls and their families joined us to enjoy a day of discovery, empowerment, and inspiration. We offered over 100 activities, including 20 engaging workshops, 65+ interactive exhibitors, all-day career mentoring, a S.T.E.A.M.-focused Maker’s Space, 7 hours of speakers & performances, and a diverse array of sports activities. It was truly a life-changing day for these girls and a fabulous first annual event!

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BizWorld Girlpreneur Competition

Mark Cuban, Sue Siegel and Tim Draper sat on our panel of judges for the girl entrepreneur competition!

When I see girls like this, actually at the age of nine, stand up here and declare that they are going to do what they believe, it’s so inspiring. So it’s just an honor to be part of this and I feel like the gender gap is closing faster and faster.”
Sue Siegel, GE Ventures CEO 

"Young Women Leading Change" Panel

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Co-Founder of The Representation Project, led a panel discussion with inspiring Vital Voices AnnPower Fellows!

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Audience:

• 5000+ attendees
• 500 program participants and volunteers
• 4,000 complimentary tickets were distributed to non-profits
• 400 girls from underserved communities were bussed to the festival as guests

Social media reach:

• 1.8 million hashtag impressions
• ~748K reached
• 800 posts from 270+ users
• Influencers: Mark Cuban, Tim Draper, Sue Siegel, Jennifer Siebel Newsom​
• 17+ million press media impressions

Click here to see videos, articles and press mentions from the festival.