About ORCSGirls

Our impact

1,576

Girls served

206

Volunteers

9,379

Volunteer hours

522

Events run

History

ORCSGirls was founded by Thomas Proffen in January 2017 as a nonprofit to inspire girls in the Oak Ridge area to explore technology, coding and science expanding the program JMSCSGirls he started at Jefferson Middle School.

Thomas has long been active in bringing coding and technology to Middle School students in the area, as organizer of the da Vinci Arts & Science Fair, as mentor of the First Lego League Team Atomic Eagles, teaching after school class on computer simulations leading to a series of computing classes as part of JMSCSGirls. These efforts were inspired by his daughters joining up with a friend and participating in ProjectCSGirls with their VR MRI Simulator project.

In addition to running Oak Ridge Computer Science Girls, Thomas is a distinguished scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he is the lead for the neutron science trailer of the ORNL Traveling Science Fair and he is one of the co-directors of the SAGE program at ORNL.

Board of Directors

Dr. Katharine Page, President
Ja’Wanda Grant, Vice President
Alanna Hunsaker-Kosier, Treasurer
Dr. Thomas Proffen, Secretary
Jami Garner
Brad Parish
Alex Shanafield

Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Thomas Proffen
Email: thomas@orcsgirls.org.

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