Selfestem

Selfestem The New Face and Culture of STEM - Igniting pride, purpose & possibility among girls and women through STEM!

This Wednesday, we're sharing we received a match! 🎉 Thanks to our incredible DAF donors who committed to granting a...
08/26/2026

This Wednesday, we're sharing we received a match! 🎉

Thanks to our incredible DAF donors who committed to granting at least half of their donor-advised fund. We were selected for a match, thanks to the strength of our DAF donor community!

Want to help us win the next match?

Visit halfmydaf.com to grant from your DAF and put more Innovators through camp, mentorship, and robotics programming.

We're celebrating 12 years of building the futures of your girls, women and people from overlooked communities and we ne...
08/19/2026

We're celebrating 12 years of building the futures of your girls, women and people from overlooked communities and we need you to join our fundraiser on Friday, October 23 at Tommy T's Comedy Club in Pleasanton, CA, featuring national comedian Kelly Kellz
Every ticket keeps programming FREE for our Innovators.

Tag someone who needs a good laugh and a good reason to give back. 👇
🎟️ Get your tickets now www.selfestem.org/news-and-updates/. GA $35 / VIP $45.

08/17/2026

Our Innovators. The Chase Center. A room built for the Future of Work.

Our Innovators spent the day at Career Day presented by Invisalign, rotating through stations for resume, branding, networking, and headshots to build the exact skills that open doors.

A huge thank you to and for creating a space where our Innovators could show up, dress the part, and see themselves in the Future of Work.

This is the new face and culture of STEM innovation.

Follow along to see what they build next.

08/14/2026

A wheelchair with a robotic arm built by Myah, Zahra, K’lynn and Camille, Junior Innovators to solve a real accessibility problem.

This team identified that people with disabilities often can't reach high-up objects during their daily routines, so they designed, and 3D modeled a wheelchair-mounted robotic arm to fix it.

and Foundation, let's build America's future, together.

This is Self-eSTEM: future tech leaders, built here in Oakland.

Follow to see the next build → [link in bio]

08/13/2026

Two Oakland Innovators had one real problem, and engineered their own fix.

Alannah and Emily built a customizable, labeled organizer kit from sketch to 3D print to Showcase pitch.

They walked away with 2nd place.

This is Self-eSTEM: future tech leaders, built here in Oakland.

and Foundation, let's build America's future workforce, together.

Learn how to co-build with the next generation of Innovators: www.selfestem.org/donate

08/11/2026

A year ago, she'd never touched an AI tool. This camp, she used one to help design her team's branding for their product.

That's what happens when you put the tools directly in an Innovator's hands instead of just talking about the future of tech.

🎥 Meet Raziya.

She joined Self-eSTEM at 7 years old. This year, in her third camp, she got hands-on with AI for the first time.

Want to fund what's next?

Donate to invest in her brilliance. 💫
selfestem.org/donate

08/06/2026

100% of this year's Innovators advanced to the next grade level.

Twelve years of culturally grounded STEM training, and the results keep showing up.

Invest in America's Future Workforce: www.selfestem.org/donate

08/05/2026

Meet the Innovators redesigning their mornings, one 3D-printed solution at a time.

90 Innovators. One design challenge. Three winning teams.

Learn how to get involved www.selfestem.org

08/03/2026

She learned to build in that room. Now she's the one teaching Innovators how.

That's what the pipeline looks like when it works. Innovators who come back as facilitators are proof this isn't a one-summer thing.

🎥 Meet Chandler.

She joined Self-eSTEM at 9 years old. Now she's in college, and back teaching the next Innovator. Want to fund what's next?

Donate to invest in her brilliance. 💫

selfestem.org/donate

07/28/2026

Last Monday, before a single Innovator walked in, this room was empty.

Then camp started.

Someone asked our founder Adamaka Ajaelo what she saw for it.

Now you know.

Follow along as we recap camp week 👉🏽

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