12 Real Women. Doing Their Real Jobs.
Beauty and the Bolt is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose mission is to lower the barrier to entry for girls in engineering, making, and the trades. We have an innovative approach to media and content creation, and frequently show that femininity and engineering are not mutually exclusive.
All calendar proceeds go directly towards additional programming, curriculum development, and media creation.
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What makes this calendar so special?
We set out to create a calendar featuring the classic Princesses many of us grew up with. Too often, young girls are presented the idea that they can be either a princess or an engineer: we are proving they can be both. Our Princesses with Power Tools Calendar is a perfect example of that-- featuring 12 incredible women in STEM and the Trades doing their work in a princess gown.
Inspired by our incredibly popular #PrincessesWithPowerTools program which has taught nearly 5,000 kids to use their first power tool, we thought it would be fun to share the princess magic with more families and kids than can be reached by our small team of volunteers.
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Meet the Princesses
Each month, you’ll get taken into the magical world of each Princess: whether it’s deep into the oceans with a marine biologist or high in the sky with a pilot and flight mechanic. Learn about what they do each day, from seeing patients, to developing complex mathematical models, to building rockets.
Dr. Victoria Herrmann
Arctic Climate Change Researcher
Dr. Victoria Herrmann is a climate change researcher, National Geographic explorer, and the Managing Director of The Arctic Institute. Her research focus on Arctic climate change, community adaptation, and cultural loss. She is a previous Fulbright Awardee, Forbes 30U30, and Gates Scholar.
Ailin Yu
Satellite Avionics Engineer
Ailin is a Satellite Avionics Software Engineer at SpaceX, where she previously worked on launch systems software. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University in 2017 with a triple major in Systems and Control Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Musical Performance.
Prof. Erika Hamden
Astrophysicist and Telescope Builder
Erika is a professor of astrophysics at the University of Arizona, where she is building a NASA-funded UV Space telescope called Hyperion. She is a TED Fellow and was awarded a Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship and a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
J'Tia Hart, PhD
Nuclear Engineer
J’Tia Hart is a Nuclear Engineering Program Lead at Argonne National Laboratory, where she is developing STEM research for national security. She’s written national security reports and delivered briefings for the government’s most senior policymakers, AND is a former CBS Survivor contestant.
Caytlin Deering, DO
Infectious Diseases Doctor
Dr. Caytlin Deering is an infectious diseases doctor and assistant professor of medicine. Her research specializes in HIV and HCV co-infection, antibiotic resistance, and travel medicine. She is a credentialed HIV specialist with the American Association of HIV Medicine.
Xyla Foxlin
Mechatronics Engineer
Xyla is a Mechatronics Engineer and the Executive Director of Beauty and the Bolt, (the nonprofit whose website you’re on!). She has a robotics and entrepreneurial background, having successfully funded her previous startup, Parihug, where she served as CEO and lead engineer.
Amber Sparks, M.A.S
Marine Conservation Biologist
Amber is an oceanographer, environmental scientist, and entrepreneur. She is a former Ocean Curator at Google and currently works at her company, Blue Latitudes, developing sustainable solutions surrounding offshore energy-related environmental issues. She is a Forbes 30U30 and certified AAUS diver.
Rindy Napper
Diesel Mechanic
Rindy is an Ontario, Canada based Diesel mechanic who is breaking the mold in an industry that is only 0.6% female. Rindy shares her work on her popular Instagram, @the_mechanchick, in hopes other girls will have a role model that she wishes she had growing up.
Davina P. Durgana, PhD
International Human Rights Statistician
Davina is an international human rights statistician who has developed leading global models to assess risk and vulnerability to modern slavery. She is a Google Fellow for Technology and Social Change, Forbes 30U30, and CrossFitter extraordinaire.
Allie Hoyt
Aircraft Mechanic and Pilot
Allie Hoyt is a certificated aircraft mechanic (A&P) and a private pilot, who is working on her commercial license. She is restoring the last aircraft ever owned by famed aviatrix Jackie Cochran, a Beechcraft Model 18 and serves as the communications director for Operation Airdrop.
Tamara Robertson
Chemical & Biotech Engineer, Mythbuster
Tamara is a patent wielding Chemical and Biomolecular Engineer, where she spent a decade in industry. In 2015 she transitioned to outreach and is a charismatic host of Discovery’s popular TV show Mythbusters. She is the co-founder of the STEM outreach comic “Seekers of Science”.
Johanna Varner, PhD
Small Mammal Biologist
Biologist Johanna “Pika Jo” Varner studies mountain mammals called pikas, a potato-sized rabbit relative that lives in alpine rockslides. She teaches at Colorado Mesa University and studies how some pikas are able to persist in unusual places – research she hopes will inform their conservation.
This calendar masterfully portrays some of today’s leading female scientists as both feminine and technically skilled. It’s important to me that we represent the multifaceted realities of being a woman in STEM today for younger students so they can grow up wanting to be smart, brave, and beautiful - like their favorite princesses with powertools!
Our Princesses with Power Tools Program
Our very first Princesses with Power Tools event at SXSW 2017.
This calendar is based on one of Beauty and the Bolt’s most popular hands-on, interactive programs: Princesses with Power Tools. Our volunteer princesses have taught nearly 5,000 kids to use their first power tool, ranging the youngest at 2 years old all the way to grandma.
The program sees complete gender equity-- boys love princesses too. "I can't tell you how many times I've seen a little girl look up at her mom and go 'Mommy, mommy! I want to do that! Let me use the hand drill' to have her mother respond 'No honey, leave that for your brother.' But when the little girl can retort 'No, I wanna go hand drill with the mermaid. Mermaids are for me too!' it puts the parent in a tough situation, and usually the kid gets to come make something with us." Foxlin says. We've had 3 generations of women all learning to power drill side by side at our table-- grandma, mom, and the little princess. It doesn't just lift the girls up, but also older women who never got opportunities when they were growing up.
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