All members of Murphy’s Outlaws are Upper School students at Columbus School for Girls, a PreK-12 all-girl school in Bexley, Ohio. Founded in 1898 as a college prep school before many women could attend college, CSG has consistently helped to educate and encourage young girls to discover their unique potential as learners and leaders. Columbus School for Girls focuses on empowering girls by teaching confidence, diversity, and drive.

Through extracurricular activities such as FIRST Robotics, mock trial, theater, the school newspaper, student government, and eleven different varsity sports, CSG provides an outlet for all girls to find their passion and pursue it from an early age. CSG girls are surrounded by a community of other driven women and are always encouraged to fulfill their unique potential. All CSG students are prepared for higher education by an engaging and challenging curriculum, whether it be through a plethora of AP courses or classes that allow girls to pursue their passions such as playwriting, women’s history, multi-variable calculus, or even bioethics.

Throughout its history, Columbus School for Girls has been dedicated to making STEM a core part of its academics. The promotion of interest in STEM is essential to addressing the gender gap between young men and women who pursue STEM-related fields in college; women only make up 24% of the STEM workforce and are less than 20% of students in physics, computer sciences, and engineering. CSG acknowledges and works against this gender gap by offering challenging and engaging courses in math, science, engineering, and technology. Students are taught collaboration, problem-solving, laboratory skills, data analysis, and other STEM skills throughout their time at CSG. Students have access to over half a dozen 3D printers on campus, which allows them to design, model, or prototype any independent project they may have.

CSG students are also able to participate in Lego League and FIRST Robotics in Middle and Upper School, providing real experience with designing and engineering. Over 30% of the Upper School participates in our FIRST Robotics team, and over two-thirds of Team 677 alumnae go on to study STEM at colleges such as OSU, Denison, Case Western Reserve University, Miami University, Virginia Tech, Yale, Princeton, RIT, and MIT.

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