About
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 so precise and so powerful that it changes how a girl sees herself in relation to science — permanently.
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.
Limitation is part of the value. When you create a space for twelve girls and say "this is yours" — something shifts. The dynamic changes. The conversations go deeper. The identity that forms is different from what happens in a mixed group.
When boys ask "can I join?" — we know we're doing something right. That curiosity, that sense that something valuable is happening behind those doors, is part of the design.
The science belongs to everyone. This particular experience belongs to them.
Our 10-Year Vision
Not where we are today — where we are building toward.
Stage 1
By 2028
5+ countries · 200+ alumni · Founding partner network established
Stage 2
By 2031
20+ countries · 1,500+ alumni
Stage 3
By 2036
40+ countries · 5,000+ alumni · Global network
Founder
Founder · Education Systems Architect · Creator of The Human Intelligence Method
Sofiko Bigvava is an Education Systems Architect, founder of Girls Who Change the World™, and creator of The Human Intelligence Method™.
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 led Experimentorium Science Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia, developing hands-on science programs, school partnerships, and inclusive learning formats for children, families, and wider audiences.
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."