Make a Cantilever 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. Create your own miniature sculpture.

Make Gummies: Gummies as Materials and Medicines

Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore the materials and properties of making gummies and learn how gummies can be used in medicine.

This STEM Girl Day activity is part of the Materials & Efficiency Adventure, Sponsored by Chevron.

Make Hand Warmers

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Natural Sciences Council
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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: BUR 212
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create hand warmers. Learn about the chemical reactions that cause the warmers to heat up and keep your hands toasty.

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

Maker-HER-space: Button Making and Cardboard Creatures

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Location: WEL 2nd Floor
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create a button and cardboard creature. Learn how 3D printers bring ideas to life. Check out stations with stacked blocks, a squeezatron, a lift stool, and balanced force sculptures.

Marble Rollercoaster

Hosting Organization: Girlstart
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Location: EER 1.524
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

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

Marine Biology: From Lab to Field

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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: BUR 216
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Observe and feed corals and anemones. Try out field gear used to collect underwater samples. Decorate a tentacle to help create a STEM Girl Day jellyfish.

This STEM Girl Day activity is part of the IF/THEN® Adventure, Sponsored by IF/THEN®, an initiative of Lyda Hill Philanthropies.

Marker Tie-Dye

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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, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Tie-dye fabric to learn about solubility and create a unique design.

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

Explore materials using electron microscopes with resolutions down to an atomic level.

Math Universe

Hosting Organization: Science Mill
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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, Grade 7, Grade 8

Math does not just live in our textbooks. It is in our world and far beyond it. Explore the ways that math surrounds us every day on Earth and in outer space.

Math, Culture, and History: Learning Across Central Texas

Hosting Organization: Central Texas Learning Festival
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Location: EER 2nd Floor West Entrance
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

Learn about local history, crafting in different cultures, and math-solving strategies. Preview the free learning opportunities during the 2026 Central Texas Learning Festival from Wednesday, March 11, 2026, through Sunday, March 15, 2026.

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

Medical Jeopardy

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

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

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

Medicine in Motion: Watch How Pills Work Their Magic

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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: BUR 220
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore how medicines work. Discover how different pills dissolve at different speeds, like real-life medications designed for fast or slow release.

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

Oil Spill Clean Up

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Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: ETC 4.132
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Protect and clean up a micro-beach environment from an oil spill.

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

Origami in STEM

Hosting Organization: HTL Think Forward
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Location: ECJ 1.304
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
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.

Pedals, Pedestrians, and Power Wheels: A Roundabout Adventure

Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Commons
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

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

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

Photo Booth and Mock Trials

Hosting Organization: Austin Black Lawyers Association
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Location: WEL 2nd Floor Grand Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Check out the photo booth and activities table. Interactive mock trials will take place every hour beginning at 11:30 a.m.

Physics Circus Demonstrations

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Physics Circus
Location: EER Lawn
Rain Location: BUR 106
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn about the wonders of physics that impact daily life. Watch physics demonstrations, answer physics questions, and volunteer for interactive experiments. Shows are 12:00pm and 1:45pm.

Physics Phuntropolis

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Location: WEL 2.320
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Explore interactive physics demonstrations, such as plasma balls, double cones, and chaotic pendulums.

Planetarium Show: A Tour of the Night Sky

Location: WEL 2.246
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Join us in our inflatable planetarium as we explore some of the amazing stars, constellations, and planets that can be seen in the Austin sky tonight.

Plastic Pollution Solution

Hosting Organization: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Freese and Nichols, Inc. is a STEM Girl Day Innovator
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Location: ECJ Plaza
Rain Location: BUR 130
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Is it possible to separate plastic from substances, like water, sand, and mud? Answer this questions through an activity and consider how you would approach cleaning up the environment.

Powered by Plants

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Location: Speedway Mall - East Mall to Gregory Gym
Rain Location: WEL 1.316
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn about plant parts, what they need to thrive, and why they are important in our ecosystem.

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

Princesses with Powertools

Hosting Organization: Reinvented Inc.
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Location: ETC 2nd Floor T-Room
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Learn to use a power drill from engineers dressed as princesses. Take home a souvenir constellation projector kit.

Project Illuminate

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Location: EER 0.706
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

Learn to program and control flashing, color-changing LEDs using a computer and an Arduino board.

This STEM Girl Day activity is part of the Coding and Robotics Adventure, Sponsored by Apple.

Puzzles, Games, & Mazes, Oh My!

Location: PMA 4.102
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
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.