Lighting a Brighter Future

Hosting Organization: Austin Energy
Austin Energy is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: ECJ 1.324
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Join Austin Energy for an electrifying virtual reality experience and learn more about electrical distribution with your own hands-on electrical project.

Lights! Circuits! Puppets!

Hosting Organization: Cadence Design System, Inc
Cadence Design System, Inc is a STEM Girl Day Adventure Partner.
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Location: EER 1.504
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the difference between series and parallel circuits as you design and construct a light up animal hand puppet with glowing LEDs.

Lyla in the Loop: Loopy Bracelets

Hosting Organization: Austin PBS KIDS
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Location: CPE 2.204
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Using different colored beads, create a bracelet that performs a looping function - it can be a pattern, a math equation, dance steps, or a computer code.

Magic Piano and Paper Circuits

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Location: ECJ 1.202
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 music and light up your drawings! With Makey Makey Piano, turn anything into a musical instrument and spark creativity, one note at a time. Use paper circuits to illuminate your illustrations.

Magical Sand Lab: The Science of Kinetic Sand

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Location: PMA 6.112
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Sifting sand. Playing with Play-Doh. Mix it up! Learn about mixtures and chemistry by making your own kinetic sand.

Make Your Own Eco-Friendly Slime

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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: BUR 208
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Make your own eco-friendly slime and learn about reducing plastic waste.

Make Your Own Flying Rocket

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Location: ASE 1.112
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3

Create and decorate your own rocket that flies. Blast off and exercise your imagination while learning about the field of aerospace engineering!

Make Your Own Gummy: Gummies as Materials and Medicines

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Location: EER 1.632
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Make your own gummies! Explore the materials and properties of making gummies and learn how they can be used in medicine.

Maker-HER-Space: Button Making & Laser Cut Keychains

Hosting Organization: UT Austin CNS Maker Space
Location: WEL 2.132A
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Join us to make you own button and laser cut keychain. Watch our 3D printer at work and learn how ideas become reality.

Making Sense of Science Laws

Hosting Organization: Edwards
Edwards is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: WEL 2.216
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore Boyle's Law, the fire triangle, and basic electronic skills with hands-on STEM experiments and challenges.

Marble Rollercoaster

Hosting Organization: Girlstart
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Hosting Organization: UT Austin EdEN Lab
Location: EER 1st Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, 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.

Masterpieces in Minutes: AI Image Workshop

Hosting Organization: Microsoft
Microsoft is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 0.708
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Unleash your creativity and design imaginative STEM images. Explore AI design, edit prompts, and bring wild ideas to life with AI-powered tools.

Materials Exploration from Large to Atomic Scale using Electron Microscopes

Location: EER 0.756, TMI Microscopy Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the world of atoms, molecules and crystals through interactive hands-on activities and demonstrations.

Medical Jeopardy

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Location: PMA 5.120
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Play medical jeopardy and explore medical trivia with health professions students.

Metallurgy Magic: Powering up with Aluminum Foil

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Manthiram Research Group
Location: EER Ground Floor (0) Commons Hallway between 0.708 and 0.716 Lab
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn from a team of researchers about how common metallurgy practices and aluminum foils can be used to build batteries. After a demonstration, create and test your own lemon battery.

Mission: Materials Science

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Location: EER 1.816
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Explore the amazing world of material properties with magnificent memory wire, ferrofluid, UV reactive bracelets, and more!

Mystical Potions & Science Notions: The Magic of Chemistry

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Location: WEL 2.224
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Welcome to your first Potions class! Watch as elixirs change color, fire is summoned, foam erupts, & thunderclouds form in this enchanting display of chemistry. Show Schedule: 45 minute shows repeated at 11:30 a.m., 12:45 p.m., 2:00 p.m., and 3:15 p.m.

Nuclear Cleanup Quest: Slime Simulation

Hosting Organization: UT Austin American Nuclear Society
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Location: PMA 4th Floor 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

Join nuclear engineering students in creating slime representing nuclear waste, exploring cleanup techniques, simulating real-world nuclear waste management, and learning about safe disposal methods.

Organ Systems Exploration

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

Hands-on anatomy tour of the lungs, heart, and brain. Compare healthy with smokers' lungs, and learn about the heart chambers and the brain. Color, label, and take home a diagram of each.

Origami in STEM

Hosting Organization: STARBASE Austin
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Location: ECJ 1.304
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

We are not quite ready for a paperless society, because there are so many cool things you can make with paper! Join us as we reshape, transform, cut down and take flight.

Paper Circuits: Make Electrifying Cards

Hosting Organization: Cirrus Logic
Cirrus Logic is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 0.808
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Mix electronics and art with your own light-up paper circuit design. Many materials can be substituted as "wire," including special copper tape. Test it out and find out how.

Paper Plane Path Prediction Party

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: WEL 1.308
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Design, test, and fly paper planes while exploring how computers use math and physics to predict their flight paths. Learn how to turn real-world experiments into understanding using computer simulations.

Patient Puzzle: Detect like a Doctor

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Global Medical Training
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Location: WEL 2.214
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Work with your peers to figure out the symptoms of a patient. Discover how to take blood pressure and check for pulse.

Pedals, Pedestrians & Power Wheels: A Roundabout Adventure

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

Navigate a roundabout as a driver, cyclist, or pedestrian! Learn about traffic safety, explore intersection design, and discover inspiring women in transportation.

Permeability: Movement of Water through Soil

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Location: ECJ Plaza
Rain Location: ECJ 3.110
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the science and engineering of permeability. Use plastic cups filled with layers of different materials and pour water into them to explore and learn how water moves through different soils.