Beauty and the Bolt’s goal is to share engineering and the maker movement in a way that makes sense and is engaging to parts of the population that aren’t currently being reached out to. Who said an engineer has to look a certain way? Act a certain way? Dress a certain way? By framing the channel around Belle, our goal is to subliminally tell people that femininity and engineering are not mutually
exclusive. Women and minorities are vastly underrepresented in the STEM workforce. Beauty and the Bolt aims to make learning engineering easy, cheap, and accessible for anyone - especially teens and young adults - while also encouraging creativity and individuality. Beauty and the Bolt has videos separated into a few categories-- there is the Zero to Hero series, which provides an introduction to basic tools. Many of those tutorials have a matching project video, which is a simple project using only that tool. We do projects an average person could do at home (like arduinos and hand tools), as well as crazy, difficult, outworldly projects using expensive equipment just to show what is possible (think CNCs, laser cutters, metal shops, and more). The channel also covers trending tech topics and why you should care-- for example additive manufacturing or VR/AR. Merged into the tutorial series are videos more designed for use in makerspaces, as laser cutters and 3D printers become more common in these shared areas.
