First you will need to recruit your senior high members. We decided to set a minimum GPA of 3.0 in math and science classes, so to discourage girls who just wanted to add something to their résumé and encourage those who really want to be helpful. We worked through the advanced math and science teachers. We provided flyers and ask them to announce to their classes and hand out flyers. Our senior high teachers embraced this program and at our first interest meeting we had 30 high school girls sign up. We had such a large response we had to limit the number of senior high members going to each junior high meeting (we decided to set a limit of 10 senior high girls to sign up to go to each junior high meeting so as not to overwhelm the junior high sponsors and girls.) At each junior high we tried to visit with girls prior to school starting on different orientation days. If your junior high(s) have any kind of assembly where you can address all the junior high students that would be extremely helpful to have representation. We also touched base with the science and math teachers at junior high to let them know about our program. Our junior high sponsors have been making “teaser” announcements describing our speaker and our experiment (i.e. elephant toothpaste or shooting foam rockets) to pique the interest of the girls. Our attendance at the junior highs have started smaller (5 at each of 2 junior highs), but each is growing as word passes around the schools. Junior highs have a lot of athletics after school which can interfere with meeting attendance so check with junior high’s schedule. This may account for some ebb and flow in the GEMS population. Make sure to have a sign in sheet to record the attendees email addresses or text numbers so you can send reminders before the junior high meeting.