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

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - STEMtastic Semiconductors and Circuits Adventure, Sponsored by Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

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.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Math and Money Adventure, Sponsored by STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner: Visa.

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.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - STEMtastic Semiconductors and Circuits Adventure, Sponsored by Cadence Design Systems, Inc.

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

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Creating Chemistry Adventure, Sponsored by BASF Corporation.

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

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Creating Chemistry Adventure, Sponsored by BASF Corporation.

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

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Engineering Our World Adventure, Sponsored by the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin.

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

Join us to make your own button and cardboard creature. Learn about how our 3D printers bring ideas to life.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Medical Technology Adventure, Sponsored by STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner: Hologic.

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.

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.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Creating Chemistry Adventure, Sponsored by BASF Corporation.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Math and Money Adventure, Sponsored by STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner: Visa.

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

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

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.

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

Explore Phun Phacts (Fun Facts) with Texas Physics students and find the answers to questions such as: Where is the center of gravity of Texas? How are rainbows formed?

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

Learn about all the free educational and learning opportunities during the Central Texas (CTX) Learning Festival March 5-9, 2025. Decorate your learning passport to bring for your learning journey.