Fly into Science

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Longhorn Racing
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Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: Speedway Garage Ground Floor
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Investigate seed dispersal and design and build flying toys. Explore laws of motion, forces, and engineering design.

From Idea to Action in Less Than Ten

Hosting Organization: Start-Up Kids Club
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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

Got a big idea? Then let's start-up! Get creative, design a product, solve a problem, and pitch it like a pro...all in just 10 minutes.

Future in Every Drop: Water Filtration for Recycling, Reuse and Art Experiment

Hosting Organization: Austin Water - City of Austin
Austin Water - City of Austin is a STEM Girl Day Water Monster Co-Sponsor.
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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: BUR 108
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Become a water resource engineer and join us for a hands-on experiment to explore the future of water recycling for reuse. Learn ways you can help save and protect our precious water resource.

Get a Grip! The Wonders of Hands

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

Explore the evolution of hands by observing several mammals' bones and comparing their structure and function. Make a working model hand and see how bones and tendons give us our "handy" abilities.

Girl Scouts Information Table

Hosting Organization: Girl Scouts of Central Texas
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Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: ASE 1.112 Lobby Entry Awning
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, pick up your event patch here.

Girl Scouts Robotics

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Location: ASE 1.112
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 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.

Girls in Hard Hats

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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

Explore the construction industry and experience key aspects of the design and building process, including architectural design, civil engineering, site conditions, building systems, and safety.

Girlstart Information Booth

Hosting Organization: Girlstart
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Location: EER 1.524
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, 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.

Groovy Flows: Make your own Lava Lamp!

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Austin STEM Buddies
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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: BUR 224
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Transform your space with a DIY lava lamp. Combine water, vegetable oil, food coloring, and an alka seltzer tablet in a clear bottle. Watch the colorful blobs dance and flow as they heat up.

Heroes in Training: Exploring CPR, First Aid, and EMT Adventures

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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: ECJ 2nd Floor Lobby
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn the basics of CPR, first aid, and Stop the Bleed, led by experienced EMTs.

Human Circuits

Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: BUR 112
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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.

Illustrate that Illness

Location: ECJ Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 3.112
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn about the common bacteria and viruses that make us sick. Put your artistic skills to the test by illustrating your interpretation of different diseases with the help of evidence-based medicine.

Imaginary Invention Competition: Bring Your Ideas to Life through Glass

Location: WEL 2.146
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

Insect Biomimcry Engineering

Hosting Organization: Science Mill
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Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: BUR 136
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Examine slides of insect anatomy up close, then design and create a solution for a real-life everyday problem out of our pre-cut cardboard inspired by nature's engineering.

Inside My Body: Heart & Lungs

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Location: WEL 2.320
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Unlock the mysteries of how your heart and lungs work by learning to measure blood pressure, getting an electrocardiogram to explore your unique heart rhythm, and observing pig lungs up close.

Inside Operating Systems: Discover How Your Device Thinks

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

Assemble computer parts and learn about hardware components, learn the difference between apps and operating systems, and explore what's happening inside a computer in a real time demonstration.

Inside Out: Discovering Health With Imaging

Location: EER 2.610
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 how we use pictures to treat patients. Visit our Inside Out themed station to learn about different types of images in medicine. Activities include coloring, solving puzzles, and writing code.

Instant Engineering Challenge

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Location: PMA 5th Floor Lounge Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

You have 2 minutes to build a bridge. One minute to build a tower. Engage in a series of quick mini-challenges to test your engineering skills.

Into the Unknown: Discover the Arctic Ocean in a Glass

Location: CPE 2.116
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Join us for a spectacular event where aspiring Ice Queens can indulge in hands-on experiments that unveil the mysteries and wonders of the Arctic Ocean.

Intro to Neuroscience

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Location: PMA 5.104
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore neuroscience with images, artifacts, and trivia questions. Check out models of the brain and common tools used in neurology such as pen lights, reflex hammers, and tuning forks.

Inventors' Challenge

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Location: ECJ 1.316
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the process of engineering invention. Prototype and pitch your inventive engineering solution to a panel of real engineering students.

It's the Eye of the Tiger, It's the Thrill of the Light

Hosting Organization: UT Austin OnRamps
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Location: ECJ 1.222
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Engage with hands-on activities to learn about how light and energy impact our lives and the lives of creatures all around us.

Jell-O Fracking

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 4.150
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Pump in lots of sugary syrup and sprinkles into a cup of Jell-O to see how engineers get oil out of the earth through hydraulic fracturing.

Kidbots: Be a Developer, Tester, and Bot

Hosting Organization: Apple
Apple is a STEM Girl Day Adventure Partner.
Location: EER 1.528
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Write and debug a set of instructions that will be acted out by a kid “robot” the way a computer executes a piece of code. Be a Developer, Tester, and Bot!

Learn Science with The Science Cheerleaders

Hosting Organization: The Science Cheerleaders
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Location: EER Lawn
Rain Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Commons
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Meet The Science Cheerleaders, current and former NFL, NBA, and collegiate cheerleaders with STEM careers. Learn about their STEM jobs and the teams they cheered for. Take pictures, and do STEM activity together!