Adorable Binary Code Crown

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Location: ECJ 1.312
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create your own Binary Code Crown to show off your brainpower. Use a binary alphabet chart to spell your initials, then snap a STEM-tastic selfie. Bonus: explore science magic with microscopes.

AI Technology in Women's Health and Diagnosing Disease at the Cellular Level

Hosting Organization: Hologic
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Location: EER 0.810
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Scientists study cells to determine the cause of illness and disease. Come look at how cells are viewed and the impact of AI innovation on the health of women.

All the Things You Can Be as a ChemE

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 3.108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore the exciting space between chemistry and engineering through slime synthesis and polymerization, color changing reaction kinetics, and thermodynamics through sublimation to create ice cream.

Bath Bomb Chemical Engineering

Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 3.108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Create a fizzling bath bomb while exploring the chemical reactions that make it work.

Bats, Bees & Butterflies: Pollination Station

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Location: WEL 2.300 Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Discover what pollinators do and why they are important for our environment. Use your creativity to create a flower that attracts certain pollinators.

Be a Biomedical Engineer!

Location: CPE 2.218
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7

Join a Biomedical Engineering scavenger hunt! Build a prosthetic arm, make music with circuits, ID bones on a skeleton, and master snap circuits. Collect clues at each stop to solve a final puzzle!

Become a Biologist: Exploring Ecology, Evolution and Ethology

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: WEL 1.316
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Ready to take a closer look into the vast world of biology? Join us as we complete a variety of experiments to understand how organisms behave, interact with their environment, and change over time.

BETTY - Bringing Education and Technology to You

Hosting Organization: Goodwill Central Texas
Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

What can I do? Explore STEM career paths with VR Headsets.

Beyond Post-it® Notes

Hosting Organization: 3M Company
Location: ECJ 1.308
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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.

Binary Bracelet Making

Hosting Organization: Cabrini's 3D Prints
Location: EER 1.512
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Come create bracelets that encode your initials using binary code. Binary code is the language of computer science consisting of two numbers where each letter is represented by a unique set of numbers.

Bit by Bit Challenge: A Binary Showdown

Location: PMA 7.124
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Dive into binary coding through a hands-on challenge, Decode secret messages, convert numbers, and explore the complexities behind the computer language in an interactive and educational experience.

Blast from the Past: Digging for Fossils

Hosting Organization: UT Austin The Kemp Lab
Location: PMA 6.104
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Step into the role of paleontologist at an excavation site by finding and identifying fossils. Dig into the wondrous world of fossils and discover what we can learn from them.

Blast Off to the Stars: An Out-of-This-World Adventure

Hosting Organization: The Texas Girls School
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Location: WEL 2.246
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Blast off into space with our inflatable planetarium. Explore stars, planets, and galaxies in an immersive, interactive experience designed to spark curiosity and inspire future explorers.

Brain Builders

Hosting Organization: UT Austin The Kid's Lab
Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: BUR 220
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Dive into the world of neuroscience. Create colorful neurons and explore brain structures, unraveling the secrets of how our minds connect and communicate.

Brain Builders: Make Your Own Thinking Cap

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 3.112
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create your own brain hat and learn how the cerebrum controls everything you do. Discover how its parts work together while exploring the amazing organ that makes it all happen.

Bubble Tile Play and Exploration

Hosting Organization: MathHappens Foundation
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Location: WEL 2.220 Grand Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore math, patterns, shapes, and problem solving with our bubble tiles and challenge frames. What patterns will you make?

Building a Balloon Car

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Location: ETC 2nd Floor T-Room
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Explore different types of energy while designing, creating, and testing your own balloon-powered car out of everyday materials. How far it will go?

Bunny Suits and Microscopes

Hosting Organization: Infineon Technologies
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Location: EER 2nd Floor Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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.

Camp Langan: Engineer Your Own Campsite

Hosting Organization: Langan
Location: EER 1.814
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5

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.

Can AI Guess Your Doodle? Machine Learning with Quick, Draw

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Texas Luminescence
Location: EER 2nd Floor Connector Hallway to ECJ
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Test your drawing skills and see if AI can guess what you create. Discover how machine learning works by helping a neural network learn and improve with every doodle you draw.

Can You Handle the Pressure?

Hosting Organization: YPW Spanish Immersion
Location: CPE 2.210
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

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

Candy DNA: Build and Snack on Your Science Project

Location: ECJ Plaza
Rain Location: BUR 212
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Craft a tasty DNA model with gummy worms, licorice, and marshmallows. Explore genetics in a hands-on, edible experiment that delights both your brain and taste buds.

Catapult Challenge: Create and Test a Mini Launcher

Hosting Organization: Girl Scouts of Central Texas
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Location: ASE 1.126
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Launch into STEM by creating and testing your own custom catapult. Watch potential energy turn into kinetic energy as you launch your pom pom to amazing heights.

Catapulting Curiosity

Location: ETC 2.140
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7

Design, create, and test your own catapult. How far will it launch?

Circuit Science: Semiconductor

Location: ETC 2.136
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore the fundamentals of circuits and how they relate to semiconductor manufacturing. Explore with snap circuits, participate in a smock demonstration, and join in team building.