Chemical Reactions: Milk and Molecules

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Texas Spirits
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Location: BUR 1st Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Create a colorful explosion as milk and dish soap chemically react. The soap breaks up fat molecules, making the milk dance with swirling patterns. Join us for this fun and magical science experiment!

Circuit Science: Semiconductor

Hosting Organization: Samsung Austin Semiconductor
Samsung Austin Semiconductor is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - STEMtastic Semiconductors and Circuits Adventure, Sponsored by Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

Circuits, Puzzles, Pianos, Oh My!!

Hosting Organization: Marvell Technology
Marvell Technology is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: ETC 2.102
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - STEMtastic Semiconductors and Circuits Adventure, Sponsored by Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

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

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Location: PMA 7.104
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

Clever Catapult Challenge

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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor 0.804 Prefunction Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore principles of engineering, architecture, and creativity with DIY-popsicle catapults. How far will yours launch?

Coding Binary Bracelets

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Location: EER 3.642/3.640
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 binary code, the language computers use to represent information, and create a bracelet by encoding your own initials using 1's & 0's.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Coding and Robotics Adventure, Sponsored by Apple.

Coding with Micro:Bits

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Location: PMA 5.114
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Coding and Robotics Adventure, Sponsored by Apple.

Colorful Wind Spinner: Exploring Motion in Action

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Location: WEL 2.220 Grand Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Create your own colorful wind spinner and explore the spinning, stretching, compression, and energy of motion.

Coloring, Creatures, and Curiosity

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Science Under The Stars
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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Commons
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 fascinating Austin animals and get creative with coloring. Ask UT biologists anything you are curious about.

Concrete Coasters

Hosting Organization: Martin Marietta
Martin Marietta is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: WEL 2nd Floor Grand Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Make and decorate your own concrete coaster. Discover the aggregate mining process and explore how rocks in the earth become part of the foundations of our community.

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

Location: CPE 2.208
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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
Cleary Zimmermann Engineers is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 1.818
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

Cookie Mining: Discover Earth's Resources and Green Energy

Hosting Organization: EcoRise
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Location: WEL 2.140
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Dig into a cookie to extract chocolate chips while keeping the cookie whole. Explore the challenges of mining and learn about renewable energy and its trade-offs.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - The Future of Energy Adventure, Sponsored by STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner: Halliburton.

Coral and Anemone Feeding and Ocean Acidification Experiment

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Location: BUR 216
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Come learn about careers in marine science! We have live corals and anemones to feed and an ocean acidification experiment to show how climate change threatens coral reefs.

Cosmetic Engineering - Manufacturing Lip Gloss

Hosting Organization: BASF Corporation
BASF Corporation is a STEM Girl Day Adventure Partner.
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Location: PMA 7.114
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 manufacturing engineering and the engineering of additives, mixtures and mixing. Create your own lip gloss through a highly efficient cosmetic engineering manufacturing process.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Creating Chemistry Adventure, Sponsored by BASF Corporation.

Covert Admissions Welcome Center

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Office of Admissions
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Location: Admissions Welcome Center in PCL
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Visit the Rox, Duke and Danay Covert Admissions Welcome Center to connect with Admissions team members.

Create a Balloon Car

Hosting Organization: Cox Automotive
Cox Automotive is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
Location: ECJ 1.318
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Use everyday materials to design, create, and test your own balloon car. Explore how different physics principles help us get the car to move. How far will it go?

Create Your Own Geographical Formation Exploration Sensory Bottle and Play the "O&G Trivia Game”

Hosting Organization: Halliburton
Halliburton is a STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner.
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Location: ETC 2.126
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Join Halliburton to learn about the underground exploration of the geographical formation, by creating a unique sensory bottle to visualize the movements of rocks, stones, & water. In addition, there will be an "O&G Trivia Game"!

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - The Future of Energy Adventure, Sponsored by STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner: Halliburton.

Create Your Own Night Light

Hosting Organization: Cirrus Logic
Cirrus Logic is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 0.806
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7

Explore electrical engineering and circuit design by creating your own night light or lantern to take home. Create a circuit just like night lights have in your own home.

Create Your Own Robot Hand

Location: EER 1st Floor E-Loft
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 string-operated robotic hand, using paper and straws. Explore how robots can be designed to mimic human actions.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Coding and Robotics Adventure, Sponsored by Apple.

Cupcake Coring

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Location: ETC 4.150
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 our earth's subsurface and use a straw to perform "coring" into a cupcake "reservoir". Removing the straw to explore different layers of the geological subsurface of our cupcake earth.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - The Future of Energy Adventure, Sponsored by STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner: Halliburton.

Dean Keeton Street Makeover

Hosting Organization: HDR
HDR is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
Location: EER 0. Ground Floor 0.804 Prefunction Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Redesign Dean Keeton Street through UT's campus and provide improved infrastructure for new buildings while learning about women in STEM and their journeys from childhood to their current roles.

Design, Create, Make: Explore Texas Inventionworks

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Texas Inventionworks
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Location: EER 0. and 1 Floors
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

Location: POB 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

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

Discover Quantum

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Quantum Collective
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Location: ECJ 1.214
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the tiny world of particles, where things can be in two places at once. Discover principles of quantum mechanics and quantum computing through hands-on activities.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Texas Science Festival Adventure, Sponsored by the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin.