These dolls are trying to make the STEM fields cool for girls

In the last few years, toys like GoldieBlox and Roominate have begun appearing on the market as part of an attempt to increase interest in the STEM fields – particularly among young girls.

STEM refers to the the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Taking this one step further, MGA Entertainment recently announced that they would be launching a series of dolls focused on the four STEM disciplines called Project Mc².

Project Mc² features four dolls. MGA describes the girls as McKeyla McAlister (Mc²), a writer, hipster and undercover spy; Adrienne Attoms (A²), a Spanish culinary chemist; Bryden Bandweth (B²), a tweeting, digital photographer tech expert; and Camryn Coyle (C²), a genius who loves to skateboard.

Unlike many dolls, these girls not only differ in clothing and hair colour but physically have different heights, unique facial structure and (most importantly) different interests – each in one of the STEM fields.

To mark these interests, the dolls are being sold with accompanying experiments that use simple ingredients from you kitchen to make things like glow sticks and erupting volcanoes.

Check out the product descriptions below:

• BUILD YOUR OWN LAVA LAMP with McKeyla McAlister.
  Just add oil and water from your kitchen, a little food coloring, turn on the light, and drop in an effervescent tablet (sometimes called Alka-Seltzer) and see what happens next! 
  
  

• CREATE A VOLCANO ERRUPTION with Adrienne Attoms.
  Just add baking soda and vinegar from your kitchen, and watch what happens next!
  Maybe you even add a little food coloring to see how the lava changes

• MAKE YOUR OWN GLOW STICK with Bryden Bandweth.
  Take the tube provided, add water and dish soap from your kitchen, and the 2 powders provided, shake it up and watch what happens next!

• BUILD A SKATEBOARD FROM BLUEPRINTS with Camryn Coyle.
  Use water to and a paint brush to reveal the blueprints to a skateboard and then build it using the instructions.

The dolls are launching in stores this week to coincide with the Netflix Original series also titled “Project Mc²,” which follows the four girls through their adventures at Maywood Glenn Academy and the secret organization, NOV8 (pronounced innovate).