Shrinky Dinks: Where Art and Chemistry Collide
Explore the art and science of shrinky dinks. Discover the world of materials and nanotechnology as orderly polymer chains become disorderly in this creative and artistic activity.
Sound Sandwiches and the Science of Sound
Learn about the science behind sound. Engineer and create an instrument out of household materials that will allow you to make music at anytime.
Speed Racers: Vehicles & Physics
Learn about physics and create the fastest vehicle. Use a variety of building materials to enhance your vehicle, and pick the fastest route to win. Meanwhile, learn more about transportation.
Spin Into STEM
Explore electricity and magnetic fields by making a simple motor.
Spot the Mimic
Sometimes, animals pretend to be scary to trick their predators. Can YOU spot the differences between the toxic animal and the nontoxic mimic?
STEM and the Law: A Judicial Photobooth Experience
Dress up as judges and pose with a giant or small gavel in our Judicial Photobooth. Meet judges and lawyers with STEM backgrounds. Explore law related coloring books and materials.
STEM in Action: Binary Code Necklaces, Drones, and Microscopes
Make a BINARY CODE necklace. Learn about DRONES from award-winning female drone team members. Peek at science in MICROSCOPES and learn from female medical students in Early College High School.
Stony Point Solar Car Team
Check out our solar car, learn about the Solar Car Challenge where we race our vehicle, and join in demonstrations with our aspiring engineers and scientists.
Sun Prints (Cyanotype)
Explore the concept of UV light by creating DIY cyanotype sun prints with nature-based materials and sunlight.
Super Golf Tower
Design, engineer and create the tallest tower you can with 10 sheets of newspaper and 3 feet of tape. The tower will need to support a golf ball without falling over. Tallest and sturdiest towers win.
Super Semiconductors
Semiconductors power everyday devices from computers, gaming consoles, cars, and AI. Learn through a hands-on activity and check out gaming, AI and VR demonstrations of AMD processors in action.
Taking Care of the Texas Environment
Come see different air and water quality monitoring equipment in action and learn how the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) helps keep our environment clean.
Test your Spinal Surgery Implant Skills in the Banana Lab
Damaged nerves in your spine can cause pain typically treated with medications or surgery. Learn how Spinal Cord Stimulation uses advanced technology to relieve that pain at the Abbott Banana Lab!
Texas Robotics Tours and Exploration
Visit the Anna Hiss Gymnasium, the home of Texas Robotics, to interact with real robots and learn about robotic concepts, including Medical Robotics, Autonomous Robotics, Robot Manipulation, or Nuclear and Applied Robotics. To attend the tours during STEM Girl Day at UT Austin, pre-reserved tickets are required. Each tour is 15 or 20 minutes long and has a maximum capacity of 25 people. Secure tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/girl-day-texas-robotics-tours-tickets-7692….
Texas Tuition Promise Fund® and Match the Promise Foundation
The Texas Tuition Promise Fund® allows families to lock in today prices for tomorrow undergraduate resident tuition and schoolwide required fees at eligible Texas public colleges and universities.
The Future of Women in STEM: Gaming, Mentorship, and Sustainable PC Design
Check out Girls Who Game Minecraft sustainable worlds, see the vision Dell has for the future of sustainable PC design, and color your own laptop screensaver.
The Grow Up Garden: From Seed to STEM - Book Reading & Activity
Join book author and Lake Travis High School junior, Evangeline Gatz, for a reading and hands-on activity based on her book, The Grow Up Garden: From Seed to STEM. From the book description: "This beautifully illustrated children's book unfolds the story of Poppy, who, unsure of her future aspirations, finds inspiration through a series of magical encounters with women excelling in STEM fields."
The Sky is NOT the Limit
Are you interested in rockets? Join rocket engineers to explore several model rocket launches at our station outside the ASE building, experience wind tunnel demonstrations in our first-floor ASE building lab, and learn how you can help our competition rocket.
Rocket Launch from ASE Parking Lot 18 at 12:10 p.m. and 3:10 p.m. Viewing area from plaza area on the north side of ASE along Wichita Street.
The Sun-Earth-Moon System and You
Learn about how the Earth, Moon, and Sun work together to impact our lives. Engage with hands-on activities that model scientific topics taught in OnRamps college-level courses.
The Ultimate Engineering Challenge: Construction, Communication, and Collaboration
Read design plans to design, create, and construct your own bridge and test its strength. Then see how well you are able to communicate like an engineer with a telephone style game.
The UT Austin Physics Circus - STEM Girl Day Show
Enjoy fascinating physics that surround our daily lives. Watch phenomenal physics demonstrations, answer fun physics questions, and volunteer in hands-on experiments. 45 minute shows at 12:00 p.m. and 1:45 p.m.
Tiny Dancers (A Homopolar Motor)
Create a dancing wire sculpture by harnessing the magnetic field created by a simple AA battery.
To Play a Game or To Make a Game - You Decide
Come play a colorful and cozy game made by UT students or have fun creating your very own game by changing things in a special game-making engine.
To the Stars: Rocket Design Lab
Embark on a stellar journey and ignite your creativity in this hands-on space adventure. Explore rocketry, design your spacecraft, and launch dreams into the cosmos.
Totality! Exploring the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse
Find out about the April 8th Total Solar Eclipse in Austin and other parts of Texas. Why is it special? How do eclipses work? How can you observe it safely? Join us for hands-on activities to explore eclipses and to prepare for Totality!