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STEM Learning Workshops

We Make Math + Science Fashionably Fun


Summer 2013 STEM Learning Workshops


FashionablyMashed®, the STEM of Fashion Design

June 3-7 At the Preston Summer STEM Institute Apply + request scholarship information

June 9 At Las Chicas de Matemáticas, University of Northern Colorado Learn more

June 10-14 At the Preston Summer STEM Institute Apply + request scholarship information

June 17-21 At the Preston Summer STEM Institute Apply + request scholarship information

July 30 At Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO Register here

August 6 At Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO Register here

August 13 At Art Lab, Fort Collins, CO Register here

Beyond Beautiful™, the STEM of Jewelry Design with 3D Printing

June 10-14 At the Preston Summer STEM Institute Apply + request scholarship information

June 17-21 At the Preston Summer STEM Institute Apply + request scholarship information

STEM Learning Girls Love

At Pretty Brainy®, we want girls to experience the fun and meaning of science, technology, engineering, art and math – STEM learning workshops with the “art” component. Our original workshops, FashionablyMashed® and Beyond Beautiful™, give students real-world, hands-on experience in fashion design. If you’re wondering what science and math have to do with fashion, the answer is everything.

Showing girls their potential in future careers is vital. Combine STEM with fashion and you get FashionablyMashed® and Beyond Beautiful™. Designed for teens and ’tweens, the workshops engage girls in STEAM in a way that values their interests and perspective.

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Benefits of STEM Learning from Pretty Brainy

  • Gain self-confidence.
  • Boost interest in STEAM.
  • Learn problem solving, critical thinking + much more.
  • Gain experience with decision making and ethics.
  • It’s fun!

Pretty Brainy founder and CEO Heidi Olinger leads and brings the workshops to you. The award-winning educator and social entrepreneur works with educators to use fashion design as a STEAM learning tool for ʾtween and teen girls in and beyond the classroom. You receive:

  • A step-by-step program of creative design and STEAM.
  • Cool tools and processes used by professionals.
  • Interdisciplinary learning, including color theory and physics, conceptual thinking and human behavior, soil science and sustainability, and more.
  • Real-world applications and understanding of STEAM.
  • Finished design work.


We Believe Everyone Has a Heroic Mission. We Help Girls Find Theirs.


Join a Summer STEM Program

Check out our current schedule of Summer 2013 STEM programs.

Host FashionablyMashed® at Your Organization or Home

Host a STEM workshop for your friends, school or nonprofit organization. For young people or adults, 2.5 hours of creating a mood board, sourcing, costing + pitching your design concept. Participants apply their design to a T-shirt, making it their own wearable art to take home.

$40 per student.* Minimum 10 students.

*Fee plus expenses for programs held beyond a 50-mile radius of Fort Collins, CO.

SCHEDULE YOUR WORKSHOP NOW