STEM Girl Day Activities

All the Things You Can Be as a ChemE

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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.

Artistic Graphite Circuits

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Location: EER 0.804 Auditorium Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

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

Balloon Racer Challenge

Location: Lot 92
Rain Location: Speedway Garage Ground Floor
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

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.

Bath Bombs

Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 6

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

Be a Biomedical Engineer: LEGO® Prosthetics

Location: CPE 2.204
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Be a Longhorn: Explore UT Austin Admissions

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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Be a Video Game Developer

Hosting Organization: Game Worlds
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Location: EER 0.806 Auditorium Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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.

Become a Cybersecurity Hero Today

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Location: AHG Courtyard
Rain Location: EER 1.516
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Bevo Tower Power

Hosting Organization: EiE®, Museum of Science
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Location: ETC 2nd Floor Open Study Area (T-Room)
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Engineer an index-card tower that will support Bevo.

Beyond Post-it® Notes

Hosting Organization: 3M
Location: ECJ 1.308
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
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.

Boat Race Engineering Challenge

Hosting Organization: Bullock Texas State History Museum
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Location: PMA Plaza
Rain Location: PMA Plaza - Under Awning (Cold Weather Back-up: PMA 4th Floor Lobby)
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Bottle Rockets

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Location: Lot 92 (Lawn)
Rain Location: ETC 3.108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

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

Breathe In, Breathe Out: Create a Working Lung Model

Hosting Organization: Nomi Health
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Location: EER 1st Floor E-Loft
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Bridge Building is Cool

Hosting Organization: H&H
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Location: CPE 2.218
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Bright Ideas: Power Our World

Hosting Organization: Chevron
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Location: ECJ 1.214
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Bubble Shapes: Create a Bubble Wand

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Location: CPE 2.220
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

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 a Binary Bracelet

Hosting Organization: IBM
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Location: EER 1.518
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 8

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

Build-A-Lung

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Location: ETC 2.132
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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.

Bunny Suits and Microscopes

Hosting Organization: Infineon Technologies
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Location: EER 2nd Floor Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: 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

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Location: EER 1.814
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
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 You Handle the Pressure?

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

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

Chain Reaction Machine Creation

Hosting Organization: Garver
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Location: WEL 2nd Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6

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

Chromatography Bats

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Location: AHG Courtyard
Rain Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

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

Circuit Science: Understanding the Power of Semiconductors

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Location: ETC 2.140
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

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.

Clean Water Distribution: Lakes, Pumps, Pipes, and Tanks!

Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: EER 0.804 Auditorium Lobby
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

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.