All the Things You Can Be as a ChemE

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: WEL 2.110
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.

Balloon Racer Challenge

Hosting Organization: Longhorn Racing at UT Austin
Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: ETC 3.112
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
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 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 bath bomb and explore the chemical reactions that make it work.

Bats, Bees & Butterflies: Pollination Station

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Location: WEL 2nd Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
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 Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7

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

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.

Bilingual Bot Battle

Hosting Organization: Latinitas
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Hosting Organization: Science in a Suitcase
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Location: PMA 6.104
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Unleash your STEM prowess at Bilingual Battle Bots. Dive into programming, craft costumes, & script bilingual mad libs. Watch as your bots clash to reveal the ultimate champion. Join the tech fiesta!

Blink Bots: Light-up Circuit Creations

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

Spark your love for STEM with this electrifying activity! Learn about circuits and light up your own circuit art creation to take home.

Bubble Wands

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: ECJ 3.402
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Create your own bubbles with a giant wand! In addition, this experiment includes observation sheets, discussion questions, and an explanation of the surface tension science behind the experiment.

Build a Balloon Car

Hosting Organization: Cox Automotive
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Location: ECJ 1.316
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Use everyday materials to build your own balloon car. Design your own car while seeing how different physics principles help us get the car to move.

Build Paper Safety Hat and Play Engineering Games

Hosting Organization: Fluor Corporation
Location: ECJ 1.324
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

Dive into the exciting world of construction. Learn the secrets to stay safe on the job sites. Craft your own safety helmet & tackle puzzles and games about structural engineering.

Build Your Own Invasive Species

Location: CPE 2.208
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

In this engineering design challenge, you will build your own seed and test how far it can disperse in the wind. Do YOU have what it takes to build an invasive species that outcompetes local plants?

Build Your Own Lava Lamp

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: ETC 3.112
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Design and create your own lava lamp using common kitchen materials. Learn about the science of mixing, reactions, materials and more.

Build Your Own Oil Derrick

Hosting Organization: SilverBow Resources
Location: EER 0. Ground Floor - Commons
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Build your own crafty oil derrick while learning what an oil derrick does and how it works.

Build Your Own Product Line: Candle Making

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Location: PMA Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 3.108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the business-building and science of candles. Make your own candle and learn how to build your own candle empire.

Bunny Suits and Microscopes

Hosting Organization: Infineon Technologies
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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor - Commons
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 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
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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
Location: CPE 2.210
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
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.

Capture the Flag

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

Explore cybersecurity basics and how to navigate the world of digital citizenship with our Capture the Flag challenges.

Catapult Creating

Location: ETC 2.136
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Explore energy science and engineering while creating catapults out ofrubber bands and popsicle sticks.

Chance & Charms: Monte Carlo Bracelet Making Event

Location: EER 1.512
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

Come explore the Monte Carlo statistics simulation and create your own bracelet.

Chromatography Bats

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Location: AHG Courtyard
Rain Location: WEL 1.316
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Circuit Science: Semiconductors

Location: ETC 2.140
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

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

Circuits, Puzzles, Pianos, Oh My!!

Hosting Organization: Marvell Technology
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Location: ETC 2.102
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

Play a fun puzzle game to learn about physical layout and routing of semiconductors. Learn about circuits through music and wiring an electronic piano.Games will be tied to chip design skills.

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

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: EER 1.632 in Texas InventionWorks
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore a simulated surface water supply (lake) with varying water elevations, a pump to move water from the lake up several feet to an elevated water tank, and pipes to flow the water to homes.