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The science endures. So should the stories of the women who made it.
Most girls grow up without ever hearing the names of the women who made the discoveries that shaped the modern world. Not because those women didn't exist — but because their stories weren't told with the same weight, the same reverence, the same sense of inevitability as the stories of their male counterparts.
Girls Who Change the World was created to fix that. Not with slogans or posters, but with an experience designed to help a girl see herself differently in relation to science — not only as someone who can learn it, but as someone who can contribute to it.
We don't say "girls can do science." We show them that women already did — and then we make them part of that lineage.
We love boys. We want boys to know these stories too. But Girls Who Change the World is a space created specifically for girls.
We designed GWCTW around a hypothesis: that a girls-only space can create a different group dynamic — one in which different questions, conversations and forms of participation become possible.
The science belongs to everyone. This particular experience belongs to them.
Founder
Founder · Systems Strategist · Creator of The Human Intelligence Method
Sofiko Bigvava is a systems strategist, founder of Girls Who Change the World™, and creator of The Human Intelligence Method™.
Her cross-functional work connects strategy, experience, operations, digital infrastructure and AI-supported systems, from definition through implementation.
Her work focuses on the capacities children need in the age of AI: noticing, questioning, reasoning, interpreting evidence, and making thinking visible.
Since 2016, she has co-led Experimentorium Science Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia. More than a decade of work across programmes, visitor experience, partnerships, communications, operations and digital systems provides the practical foundation for the institutions she builds.
Girls Who Change the World™ grew from this wider body of work. It is not only a museum program, but an international, cohort-based movement designed to help girls aged 10–14 build curiosity, agency, and intellectual courage — through a deeper relationship with the women who changed science, technology, medicine, and the planet.
Alongside GWCTW, Sofiko is developing The Human Intelligence Method™ — a framework for helping learners make their thinking visible through observation, questioning, and defended judgment.
Her guiding question:
"When AI can generate answers, how do we help young people build the kind of thinking that can observe, question, interpret, and defend what it sees?"
"Every girl who joins becomes part of a lineage of women who changed the world by seeing what others couldn't — and refusing to be invisible."