Discover Quantum

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Quantum Collective
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Location: ECJ 1.202
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.

Discover Your Skin: Health and Protection

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Location: ETC 2.132
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Join us for an engaging presentation on skin health and protection. Enjoy interactive games and win prizes while learning how to keep your skin healthy.

Disease Detectives

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

Practice your detective skills using clues to solve an outbreak while learning all about Epidemiology and the field of Public Health.

DIY Cantilevers with Clock Knot

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Landmarks
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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 about the ways in which Mark di Suvero incorporated structural engineering in his artwork and make your own mini sculpture to take home!

DIY Hex Bugs

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Location: ECJ 1.314
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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 Lamps

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Texas Lassos
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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Hallway / 0.736
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 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

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 2nd Floor T-Room
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.

Driving Human Progress with Technology: Design your own circuit, egg drop, and laptop

Hosting Organization: Dell Technologies
Dell Technologies is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 1.516
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Check out our marble maze circuit design, learn how we use sustainable materials in our designs as you create your own egg drop, and color your own laptop screensaver.

Egg Drop Challenge

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Location: EER West Entrance
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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
Applied Materials is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 1.820
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, 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
Chevron is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: CPE 2.206
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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? Join in an experiment to explore how tricky separating these fluids is when you create an emulsion.

Energize Your Future with Wind

Hosting Organization: Shell
Shell is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: CPE 2.214
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn about how the offshore wind business is helping customers reduce their emissions by providing more renewable and low-carbon energy. See how turbines are made by creating your own.

Engineering & Making Lab

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Location: WEL 2.310
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

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

Enzyme in Action: Digging into Digestion

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

Explore how our bodies breaks down fat. Use enzymes and changes in color to see digestion in action with us.

Error Correction Through Oddness

Hosting Organization: Stem Forest Books
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Location: AHG Courtyard
Rain Location: WEL 1.316
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

How does data get to your phone even when some bits are destroyed? Find out and correct data yourself using parity codes. Pair up, design your own codes and test them.

Everyday Ergonomics

Hosting Organization: Austin Ergonomics Round Table
Location: EER 0.710/0.712
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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 the Sun: Solar Telescope Viewing and Q&A with Astronomers

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

View sunspots and solar prominences through Dobsonian and Hydrogen Alpha telescopes. Open to all, with astronomers ready to answer your questions about our closest star.

Exploring 3D Landscapes across the Solar System

Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
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.

Exploring Telescopes and the Sky

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

Join us to learn how telescopes work with hands-on demonstrations by astronomers. Safely observe the sun or local landmarks, weather permitting.

Extract Strawberry DNA

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Practice your science skills by performing your own DNA extraction on a strawberry.

Extracting DNA from Strawberries

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Contreras Research Group
Location: CPE 2.220
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

Fill Your Own Prescription

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Location: ECJ 1.306
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Step into the life of a pharmacist and fill a prescription from start to finish. Take home a personalized prescription bottle with a sweet treat inside.

Fireworks in a Glass

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Omega Chi Epsilon
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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 3.108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Explore the idea of miscibility as we discover why it is that some liquids do not mix when they are added together and others do. See how colored oil dropped in water forms dazzling "fireworks".

Fizzy Paint Science

Hosting Organization: Con Mi MADRE
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Location: PMA 5.126
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 fizzy art by applying vinegar t. baking soda on watercolor paper. The acid-base reaction creates bubbles and colors, demonstrating chemical reactions and fizzy art in a and creative way!

Flight Test Zone

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Texas Flight
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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

Create your own paper airplane and see it fly in our Flight Test Station wind tunnel. Test your design, watch it fly, and learn how air makes it lift and glide.