Groove Girls is a project run out of Rockbridge Middle School by Professor Stephanie Hodde. The idea of the project is to help instill young girls with a sense of resiliency and a positive identity. Professor Hodde and women from Washington and Lee’s Dance program work directly with the girls in dance as well as many other areas of artistic expression to explore themes of identity and resilience.

In order to better reflect on the experiences of the Project, Professor Hodde decided to create a website with input and content from VMI cadets. Our mission was to come up with ways in which the goals of the project could be reinforced and revisited. The “Inspired By” page focused on role models, women who had found a groove within a certain area. The Power to the Music page focused on letting the girls reflect on how different genres of music could relate to their experiences in the project.

In the future the Groove Girls project can be expanded and maintained, hopefully with an option to make it more of an interactive experience for the participants in the group.