About ORCSGirls
Our mission is to inspire middle school girls in East Tennessee and beyond to actively explore the possibilities of technology to empower their future careers.
Our impact
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, and teaching an after-school class on computer simulations that led 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.
Board of directors
Reach the board at board@orcsgirls.org.
- Dr. Thomas Proffen — Chief Executive Officer & Secretary (thomas@orcsgirls.org)
- Dr. Katharine Page — President
- Ja’Wanda Grant — Vice President
- Alanna Hunsaker-Kosier — Treasurer
- Jami Garner — Member
- Brad Parish — Member
- Alex Shanafield — Member
Public documents
Our public filings and documents will be listed here. If you can’t find a document you need, please contact us.
Contact
Email contact@orcsgirls.org or visit www.orcsgirls.org.