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The My Science Girl Challenge

Find your inner Science Girl. Six Science Stops built around the One Health framework — because the health of you, the animals, and the earth around you are one and the same.

🎵 Theme song
Coach Lucy
A note from Coach Lucy

Every girl has a Science Girl in her.

My Science Girl is the first cousin of My Cardio Girl. Where Cardio takes you on a tour through the inside of the body, Science Girl takes you outside — to the soil, the water, the animals, the plants, and the air that make your inside health possible.

This challenge is built on the One Health framework championed by partners like We Are 1Health — the idea that human health, animal health, and environmental health are one continuous system. You can't have one without the others. So we'll explore all three, with six Science Stops, hands-on field work, and the Sunflower Grow Challenge as your living lab.

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The Framework

The One Health Triad

Three sides of one system. Every Science Stop on this page lives in at least one of these three circles — and most live where they overlap.

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Human Health

Your body, your nutrition, your mental wellness, the food and water you take in.

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Animal Health

The pollinators, pets, livestock, and wildlife whose health is bound to ours.

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Environmental Health

Soil, water, air, climate, biodiversity. The platform every living thing stands on.

The Body of Work

Six Science Stops

Each stop is a Learn It → Live It → Share It mini-quest. Some stops live in the human circle, some in the animal or environmental — most cross all three.

Stop 1
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Know Your Water

Where does your tap water come from? What's in it? Trace one glass of water from cloud → soil → pipe → you.

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Stop 2
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Know Your Soil

Dig a sample. Touch it. Test it. Healthy soil is alive — and your food's nutrition starts here, not at the grocery.

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Stop 3
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Know Your Pollinators

One in three bites of food you eat depends on a pollinator. Find one. Watch it work. Plant something it will love.

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Stop 4
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Know Your Air

Check the air quality index in your zip code today. Notice what makes it better or worse. Your lungs are listening.

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Stop 5
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Know Your Backyard

Pick a 10×10-foot patch outside. List every living thing in it. Come back in 30 days. What changed? What stayed?

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Stop 6
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Know Your Footprint

Calculate one piece of your environmental footprint — food miles, water use, screen time energy. Then change one thing.

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Grow a Sunflower

Your living lab

Featured Live It · Originally from 2018

The Sunflower Grow Challenge

One seed. One pot or patch of dirt. Track it from germination to bloom. Every Science Stop on this page lives inside that one sunflower — water, soil, pollinators, air, ecosystem, footprint.

Document it weekly. Share photos with your cohort. The first bloom earns the My Science Girl badge.

🌻 Get a Seed Kit →

Find your inner Science Girl.

Six stops. One Sunflower. A whole planet to take care of — starting with the patch outside your window.

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