STEM Girl Day Activities

Explore the exciting space between chemistry and engineering through strawberry DNA extraction, color changing reaction kinetics, and using thermodynamics through sublimation to create ice cream.

Learn how circuits help power our world as they conduct electricity through graphite drawings.

Use household supplies to create a balloon powered racecar! Longhorn Racing members will explain the basic theory of thrust and resistance while you're creating, building and testing.

Create a bath bomb and explore the chemical reactions that make it work.

Try some of the activities that UT Austin biomedical engineering students do every day, including building a prosthetic hand out of LEGO® bricks.

It's never too early to think about college. Visit with students and staff to learn about UT Austin admissions.

Game Worlds turns gaming passion into gaming careers! Learn about animation, sound design, level design, and coding from the ground up--and bring your dream video game to life.

Internet safety is more important than ever before. Explore what it means it mean to be a cybersecurity hero.

Engineer an index-card tower that will support Bevo.

3M is Science Applied to Life. 3M uses a wide variety of technologies in our diverse product lines. Join us for a sneak peek into what scientists do to create new products.

Design your own boat out of limited materials and float it down a raceway using only your breath for power.

Design and decorate a construction paper rocket. Test how far it will fly using a PVC pipe and empty soda bottle launcher.

Explore the way your lungs work by creating a working model of the human lung.

Build a bridge with bridge engineers using toothpicks and gumdrops. How much weight will your bridge hold?

Let's power the world with bright ideas. Explore energy from alternative sources and help us power a lamp using only kitchen supplies.

Use your creativity to create an amazing bubble wand of your own design. Afterwards, put your wand creation to the test and make bubbles!

Build your own binary bracelet. Learn how computers store information in binary and encode your initials on a bracelet.

Guess which lung represents a healthy lung and which represents a smoker's lung. Explore the negative effects of smoking through a demonstration with two inflated sheep lungs.

Try on a Clean Room Bunny Suit used by engineers and scientists in the manufacturing of computer chips. Use a microscope to look at real wafers that become chips in the electronics you use every day.

Design your dream campsite. With every campsite area there are rules, regulations, and limitations, so use your creativity and engineering skills to plan out the best campsite around!

Move a platform lifter, excavator, robot arm without using any type of electricity. Challenge your friends to see whose machine can finish the mission!

Create a chain reaction (Rube Goldberg machine) with ramps, dominoes, balls, and funnels to explore the basic laws of physics.

Make a multi-colored bat to take home using the science of chromatography.

What is a semiconductor? Learn and play with circuit creation: draw a working circuit, snap together Snap Circuits® and squish together squishy Play-Doh circuits.

Explore how a surface water supply (lake) with varying water elevations gets to our homes. Check out how a pump moves the water from the lake up several feet to an elevated water tank and then flows to homes.