About
The science endures. So should the stories of the women who made it.
Most girls grow up without ever hearing the names of the women who made the discoveries that shaped the modern world. Not because those women didn't exist — but because their stories weren't told with the same weight, the same reverence, the same sense of inevitability as the stories of their male counterparts.
Girls Who Change the World was created to fix that. Not with slogans or posters, but with an experience so precise and so powerful that it changes how a girl sees herself in relation to science — permanently.
We don't say "girls can do science." We show them that women already did — and then we make them part of that lineage.
We love boys. We want boys to know these stories too. But Girls Who Change the World is a space created specifically for girls.
Limitation is part of the value. When you create a space for twelve girls and say "this is yours" — something shifts. The dynamic changes. The conversations go deeper. The identity that forms is different from what happens in a mixed group.
When boys ask "can I join?" — we know we're doing something right. That curiosity, that sense that something valuable is happening behind those doors, is part of the design.
The science belongs to everyone. This particular experience belongs to them.
Our 10-Year Vision
Not where we are today — where we are building toward.
Stage 1
By 2028
5+ countries · 200+ alumni · Founding partner network established
Stage 2
By 2031
20+ countries · 1,500+ alumni
Stage 3
By 2036
40+ countries · 5,000+ alumni · Global network
Founder
An education project architect and museum leader, Sofiko Bigvava is the founder of Girls Who Change the World.
For nearly a decade, she has helped build and lead Experimentorium Science Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, creating hands-on science experiences for children, families, schools, and public audiences.
Her work turns ideas into programmes, rituals, learning journeys, and scalable educational formats — combining science education, storytelling, institutional development, and systems design.
Girls Who Change the World grew from this work and from a simple belief: girls do not need to be told that they can belong in science. They need to meet the women who already changed it.
Sofiko is developing GWCTW as an international, cohort-based education movement for girls 10–14, designed to grow through museums, cultural centres, schools, and mission-driven organisations.
Her guiding question:
"How do we build education systems that change not only what children know — but how they see themselves?"
"Every girl who joins becomes part of a lineage of women who changed the world by seeing what others couldn't — and refusing to be invisible."