Engineering & Making Lab

Hosting Organization: UTeach Outreach at UT Austin
Location: WEL 2.306
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Be an engineer every day and improve the world by doing things you already know how to do. Build bridges for the future and learn about material sciences you could one day use in your own research.

Everyday Ergonomics

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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor - Commons, EER 0.710, 0.712
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn about ergonomics and its everyday impact on how you live and get things done. Once you know about it, it will really get you thinking!

Explore Mathematics

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Location: PMA 4.102
Rain Location: PMA 4th Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

We are all mathematicians! Conquer both small and large-scale math puzzles as you discover fun, beautiful mathematics.

Exploring 3D Landscapes across the Solar System

Location: ASE Parking Lot 92 - Grassy Lawn
Rain Location: POB Hallway
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore 3D scale models of landscapes from Earth, Mars, and across the Solar System. Test your spatial geometry and pattern recognition skills by trying to match the 3D models with 2D images. We will also discuss how drones are being used to collect 3D landscape data and will conduct demonstration drone flights once an hour on the half-hour (11:30, 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, and 3:30).

Exploring Computer Hard Drives and Magnetic-Based Computing

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Location: EER West Lawn Near PMA
Rain Location: EER 1.512
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore how computers store information, how magnetism is used in computers, and how magnetic sensors work. Practice writing your name and letters using binary code.

Exploring Marine Science

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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, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore our marine life including corals and anemones and do some marine science puzzles with our marine scientists.

Exploring Role Models and Pathways in Biology: Integrating Identity and Science

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Location: EER 1st Floor E-Loft
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Draw yourself as a scientist. Learn about diverse biologists and explore research through a disease ecology game, digging for fossils, and an indigenous knowledge foraging activity.

Extract Strawberry DNA and Craft a Constellation

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: WEL 1.316
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Practice your science skills and extract DNA from strawberries. Craft your own constellation with pipecleaners and beads while learning about the patterns of stars in our night sky.

Extracting DNA from Strawberries

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Location: CPE 2.220
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

DNA is the genetic code that controls everything that happens in our cells. Come learn about DNA and extract the DNA from a strawberry.

Fabulous Fossils

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Location: Natural Resources Plaza, Texas Science & Natural History Museum
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Do some deep time traveling to learn about fossilization processes and explore fossils from different time periods and environments. See and touch actual fossils such as bones, teeth, and shells.

FIRST LEGO League STEAM Masterpiece

Hosting Organization: FIRST in Texas
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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Auditorium PreFunction Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Come enjoy a hands on experience with LEGO robotics, coding and friendly competition.

Fixing Each Other's Crowns

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Location: ECJ 1.322
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7

How can we fix each other's crowns? How can you make sure yours stays on? Get inspired to reclaim your crown with open communication as we unite as goddesses in our communities.

Forever Spinning Top

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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

Explore the science of spinning with your own upcycled CD spinning top. Decorate your top and test how long it can spin.

Future City Engineering

Location: EER 1.610 in Texas Inventionworks
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 build a future city of towers and skyscrapers using all recycled materials and come take a sneak peak of at some future cities previously built through our Virtual Reality.

Geometry and Art: An Origami Adventure

Location: PMA 5.124
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 artistry of geometric folds and master basic origami techniques while uncovering the math woven into each intricate creation.

Girl Scouts of Central Texas Information

Hosting Organization: Girl Scouts of Central Texas
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Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: ASE 1.112 Lobby
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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

Girl Scouts Robotics

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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Auditorium PreFunction 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

Play with the robots with the Lady Cans, FRC2881, robotics team. Learn how these Girl Scouts designed and built their bright pink robot and see what it can do. Pick up a swap to take home.

Girlstart

Hosting Organization: Girlstart
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Location: EER 1.524
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Let's roll! Design and construct your own rockin' roller coaster and demonstrate the laws of physics like velocity, acceleration and kinetic and potential energy.

Girlstart Information

Hosting Organization: Girlstart
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Location: EER 1st Floor Hall
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Girlstart has a mission is to increase interest and engagement in STEM for girls through innovative, nationally-recognized informal STEM education programs. Get info on camps, the Girls in STEM Conference in April, Starry Nights and more great programs for girls.

Grow a Growth Mindset Flower

Hosting Organization: Girls Empowerment Network
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Location: ASE 1.112 Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Get empowered! Think critically about how to positively self-motivate when obstacles arise by designing a growth mindset flower with paper and filling it with positive affirmations to get empowered.

Hands-On Bridge Design Challenge

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Location: ECJ 1.318
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Design, create and test your own bridge. Fold paper into structural shapes, test your beams and refine your designs. See a keystone arch, construction materials, and the history of bridge design in Texas.

Human Circuits

Hosting Organization: Burns & McDonnell
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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: WEL 1.308
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Link up with your family and friends to create a human circuit. Learn about the components of a simple circuit and experiment with different materials to see which are conductors and insulators.

Imaginary Invention Competition: Bring Your Ideas to Life through Glass

Location: WEL 2.146
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 as a team of scientists and artists work with glass to bring to life an imaginary invention submitted by the winner of the STEM Girl Day at UT Austin Imaginary Invention Contest.

Inflating Spooky Ghosts

Hosting Organization: Texas Spirits at UT Austin
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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

A spooky twist on the classic baking soda and vinegar experiment. When combined, they release carbon dioxide gas which then inflates the balloon, revealing your spooky ghost.

Inside My Body: Heart & Lungs

Location: WEL 2.320
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn how your heart and lungs work. Discover how to take blood pressure, learn about your heart rhythms with electrocardiograms, take your own finger pulse, and observe pig lungs.