Coding with Micro:Bits

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Location: PMA 5.114
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn to code using Micro:Bits, gadgets make coding a blast with lights, sensors, and endless possibilities. Code on your device and play while you learn. Mobile devices are required.

Concrete Kids Lab: Exploring the Strength of Reinforced Concrete by Load Testing

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Location: PMA 7.104
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Join us as we embark on an exciting journey into the world of reinforced concrete with real engineers and witness load testing of miniature beams to understand why we add reinforcing steel in concrete.

Connect and Chill

Hosting Organization: Cleary Zimmermann Engineers
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Location: PMA 7.112
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create a simple circuit, connect to a fan, and chill the air.Chill out and explore the basics of electrical and mechanical engineering.

Connecting with Nature on the UT Campus

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Location: WEL Plaza, Inner Campus Drive (West)
Rain Location: WEL 2nd Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Come by our station at the Turtle Pond to learn about some beloved campus wildlife including the turtles, grackles, bumblebees and oak trees!

Cosmetic Engineering - Manufacturing Lip Gloss

Hosting Organization: BASF Corporation
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Location: PMA 7.116
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 manufacturing engineering and the engineering of additives, mixtures and mixing. Create your own lip gloss through a highly efficient cosmetic engineering manufacturing process.

Crab-tivating Crabs: A Shell-ebration of Ocean Life

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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Crabs are like backpackers of the sea, scavenging for food and carrying their shells on their backs. Come see our live crabs and learn about their unique lifestyles on the seafloor.

Create a Take Home Mathmagic Trick

Hosting Organization: MathHappens Foundation
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Location: WEL 2nd Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn the mathematics behind magicians' rods, make your own and try some other tricks like the curry triangle paradox, disappearing rabbit, 64=65 puzzle, magic area puzzle, and the coin trick.

Create Your Own Bracelet with Your Name in Binary Code

Hosting Organization: Deloitte
Location: ECJ 1.306
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

Create your own personalized bracelet with your name represented by binary code and learn the language of computers.

Create Your Own Sensory Bottle and Play the O&G Trivia Game!

Hosting Organization: Halliburton
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Location: ETC 2.126
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Explore the world around you while creating a sensory bottle to engage your senses of sight, touch and/or sound and while playing the O&G Trivia Game.

Cupcake Coring

Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: CPE 2.236
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learning about the subsurface is an important feat in oil and gas. A lotis learned through the core samples grabbed during drilling. Join us and learn how to core with cupcakes.

Design & 3D Print Your Own Dream TinyHouse

Hosting Organization: TinyHackerHouse
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Location: PMA 5.122
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

Learn about modern approaches to design, innovation, engineering and architecture in TinyHouses and tiny home communities. Design a TinyHouse and 3D print your model.

Design, Create, Make: Explore Texas Inventionworks

Hosting Organization: Texas Inventionworks at UT Austin
Location: EER 0. Ground Floor and 1st Floor Texas Inventionworks
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Texas Inventionworks puts students in the role of innovators to learn, solve problems, develop products and, ultimately, launch ventures. Explore the space in action with Texas Inventionworks engineering students.

Discover Astronomy

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Location: PMA Plaza
Rain Location: WEL 2.246
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Discover astronomy through solar telescope viewing (weather permitting), UV bead bracelet making, star finder chart construction, and a hands-on pulsar model activity.

Discover Insect Defenses

Hosting Organization: Insect Collection at UT Austin
Location: EER 1st Floor Landing Area
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

Have you ever wondered how something as small as insect survives in such a big world? Join us to learn about insect adaptations and meet our live Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches.

Discovering Super Computers

Location: POB 2.404a
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn how supercomputing works with hands-on exploration with walls of digital displays, computer parts, coding with python.You will learn foundations of computing.

Discovery Lab - A Zone to Spark your Imagination and Connect

Hosting Organization: Intel Corporation
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Location: CPE 2.206
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Discover your own STEM spark while constructing circuits with breadboards, completing STEM puzzles, and creating with math and science.

DIY Cantilevers at Clock Knot

Hosting Organization: Landmarks at UT Austin
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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ECJ 2nd Floor Lobby
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Join Landmarks at the site of Clock Knot to learn how Mark diSuvero used structural engineering in his artwork. Then, create your own mini-sculpture to take home.

DIY Hex Bugs

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Location: ECJ 1.314
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore circuits by creating your own breadboard hex bug. Wire it up and watch it wiggle.

DIY Lava Lamp

Location: EER 2nd Floor Entrance Awning
Rain Location: EER 1.632 in Texas InventionWorks
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Dive into the world of science and create your own lava lamp. Unleash your creativity and discover the magic of hands-on experimentation.

DIY Lava Lamps

Hosting Organization: Texas Lassos at UT Austin
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

Create a homemade, fizzling lava lamp using the power of water, vegetable oil, fizzy tablets, and of course, density. Explore how lava lamps are made and how they work.

Don't Sink the Titanic

Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 2.108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Design, create and test a boat made out of aluminum foil to see how many objects it can hold before sinking.

Dry Ice Soda

Hosting Organization: Texas Academy of Math and Science
Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: POB Hallway
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Soda chemistry in action. Learn how to turn any juice into a carbonated beverage (aka soda!) using dry ice.

Egg Drop Challenge

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Location: EER West Entrance
Rain Location: To Be Determined
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Will your egg survive the drop? Use straws, tape, and construction paper to construct a contraption to safely land an egg.

Electroplating Charms

Hosting Organization: Applied Materials
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Location: EER 1.820
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create and personalize your own electroplated metal charm. Learn how electrical current can transfer and deposit one metal onto another.

Emulsification Station

Hosting Organization: Chevron
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Location: PMA 6.112
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Did you know that oil comes out of the ground mixed with water, gas, and other chemicals? In our experiment we will show how tricky separating these fluids is when you create an emulsion.