Space Dreams and Girl Scout Teams

I spent Saturday afternoon at the Delaware Aerospace Education Foundation watching 150 Girl Scouts from the Chesapeake Bay council turn into space explorers.

The event was called Mission Sisterhood: A Day of Space Exploration. Sounds fancy, right? But really it was just a bunch of girls having fun while learning about space.

Here’s what made it special. These girls showed up ready to learn. They weren’t on their phones. They weren’t bored. They were excited.

I watched them work together on projects. I saw them ask questions. Good questions too. The kind that showed they were really thinking about what they were learning.

The adults who came with them were just as into it. About 65 of them showed up to support these girls. That’s what I love to see. People showing up for kids.

What hit me most was seeing their faces light up. You know that look. When something clicks. When a kid realizes they can do something they thought was too hard or too complicated.

That’s the good stuff.

This is why I shoot events like this. Not for the portfolio, but because these moments matter. These girls might not remember every detail from Saturday. But they’ll remember how they felt. They’ll remember that someone believed they could explore space.

And maybe one of them will grow up and actually do it.

That’s worth showing up for.