Create a Robot Hand

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

Create your own string-operated robotic hand. Explore how robots can be designed to mimic human actions.

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

Create a Sensory Bottle and Play a 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 Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Create a sensory bottle to engage your senses of sight, touch, and movement. Play a trivia game.

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

Create and Conserve: Bind a Book

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Harry Ransom Center
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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

Learn about applying science to art through conservation. Create and bind a book to discover more about how conservators keep historical objects safe for future generations.

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

Design and 3D Print a Dream TinyHouse

Hosting Organization: TinyHackerHouse
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Location: PMA 5.126
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 Build Hook Em: UT Tower Challenge

Hosting Organization: Spire Consulting Group, LLC
Spire Consulting Group, LLC is a STEM Girl Day Innovator
Location: PMA Plaza
Rain Location: PMA 4.102
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Create a model of the UT Tower and learn how to effectively manage budget and resources with a set of constraints.

Design, Create, Make: Explore Texas Inventionworks

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

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

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Department of Astronomy
Location: PMA Plaza
Rain Location: PMA 4.102
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, ultraviolet bead bracelet making, star finder chart construction, and a pulsar model activity. The telescope viewing will only be available if weather permits.

Discover Cosmology

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Department of Physics
Location: PMA Plaza
Rain Location: PMA 4.102
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the physics of the Universe. Simulate the light-bending optical illusions from black holes and galaxies, stretch a slime cosmos, and watch cosmic time flow in our Universe hourglass.

Discovering Insects

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Science Under The Stars
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Location: Speedway Mall - East Mall to Gregory Gym
Rain Location: WEL 1.316
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Discover the amazing world of insects. Learn how scientists identify and categorize preserved insect specimens and create an insect yourself.

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

Disease Detectives: An Outbreak Investigation

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Texas Public Health
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Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Be a public health agent and solve an outbreak investigation. Learn to identify the source of an outbreak, to use problem-solving skills, and to promote public health awareness.

This STEM Girl Day activity is part of the Health and Wellness Adventure, Sponsored by Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation.

Dive into Density and Plastic in the Ocean

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Location: WEL 1st Floor
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 density in the ocean with varying salinities, and discover how density relates to plastic pollution.

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

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: BUR 116
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore a simulated surface water supply with varying elevations, a pump to move water to an elevated tank, and pipes and valves to carry the water to homes.

Earthquake Engineering and Seismic Activity

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Location: ECJ Plaza
Rain Location: POB Lobby
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create a tower and test your tower in an earthquake simulation.

This STEM Girl Day activity is part of the Materials & Efficiency Adventure, Sponsored by Chevron.

Eco-Filtering: How Nature Cleans Water

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 4.120
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Create a natural water filter with different materials and watch water change while moving through layers of the filter. Learn how environmental systems clean and protect water.

Electroplating Charms

Hosting Organization: Applied Materials
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Location: EER 1.820
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

Watch elements transform, silver into copper, using science.

Emulsification Station

Hosting Organization: Chevron
Chevron is a STEM Girl Day Adventure Sponsor
Location: CPE 2.206
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

Discover the science of emulsions. Learn about fluid science, hydrophilic and hydrophobic properties, and the oil and gas industry.

This STEM Girl Day activity is part of the Materials & Efficiency Adventure, Sponsored by Chevron.

Enzyme in Action: Digging into Digestion

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Hsu Lab
Location: WEL 2nd Floor Grand Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore how the human body breaks down fat. Use enzymes and changes in color to see digestion in action.

Exploring Telescopes and the Sky

Hosting Organization: Austin Astronomical Society
Location: PMA Plaza
Rain Location: PMA 4.102
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn how telescopes work with hands-on demonstrations by astronomers. Safely observe the sun and local landmarks, weather permitting.

Exploring the Heart, Lungs, and Brain Up Close

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Location: PMA 7.112
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Check out real lungs, hearts, and brains. Observe the characteristics of healthy lungs, learn how each organ works, and color your own anatomy diagram.

Fabric of the Universe

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Location: WEL 2.320
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Create your own planet and explore how gravity works using a fabric model of space.

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

Feel the Rhythm

Location: ECJ 2nd Floor Hallway
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 the basics of acoustics by building your own instrument. Watch wave patterns dance on a plate, tour an anechoic chamber, and record yourself on a homemade phonograph.

Future in Every Drop: Wastewater Treatment for Recycling and Reuse

Hosting Organization: Austin Water
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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: BUR 108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Be a water resource engineer and participate in an experiment to explore the future of water recycling. Learn how you can help save and protect our precious water resource.

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

Future Scientists in Action: Imagine, Explore, Experiment

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

Try out wearable gear and tools used for scientific work, such as looking at microbes and sampling DNA.

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

Girl Scouts Information Table

Hosting Organization:
Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: ASE 1.126
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Girl Scouting builds Scouts of courage, confidence, and character who make the world a better place. Visit us to learn more about Girl Scouting. Current Girl Scouts, pick up your event patch here.

Girl Scouts Robotics

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Location: ASE 1st Floor Lobby 1.112
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

Check out the robots made by the Lady Cans, FRC2881, robotics team. Learn how the robots were made and what they can do.

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