Planetarium Show: A Tour of the Night Sky

Hosting Organization: Starbound Foundation
Location: WEL 2.246
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

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.

Plant-Powered Music: A S.T.E.A.M. Adventure

Hosting Organization: SaulPaul Foundation
Location: ETC 2.108
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Join us for a musical adventure where you'll transform ordinary plants into extraordinary musical instruments. No experience required! Just bring your curiosity & creativity and let's make noise!

Plastic Pollution Solutions

Hosting Organization: Freese and Nichols, Inc.
Freese and Nichols, Inc. is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: BUR 130
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Try your hand at removing plastic pollution from water, sand, and mud. How would you approach cleaning up the environment? Is it possible to separate plastic from mud?

Play TRANSITLAND

Hosting Organization: CapMetro
CapMetro is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: WEL 2.140
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Can you make the best transit system? Build the best transit system you can in our TRANSITLAND board game and learn the decisions real CapMetro planners make.

Popsicle Stick Catapult Challenge & Race

Hosting Organization: El Buen Samaritano
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Location: EER 1st Floor Landing Area
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore the 3 laws of motion with a catapult construction challenge and race to knock over obstacles using your creation built from popsicle sticks, rubber bands, plastic spoons, and puff balls.

Practical Money Skills

Hosting Organization: Visa
Visa is a STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner.
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Location: EER 1.518
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Test your money skills and give your brain a workout with educational games including Financial Football in Partnership with the NFL and more.

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

Princesses with Powertools

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

Learn to use a power drill from women engineers dressed as princesses and will leave with a take-away souvenir constellation projector you make yourself.

Project Illuminate

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Location: EER 0.706
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 UT Computer Science students on this illuminating activity. Learn to control flashing, color-changing LED lights using a computer and an Arduino board. We will teach you how to program the lights.

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

Puzzles & Games & Mazes, Oh My!

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Location: PMA 4.102
Rain Location: Same as Primary
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.

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

Quantum Science in Manageable Byte Sizes

Location: BUR 116
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Solve the one of many Cat Puzzle Challenges, send secret messages, and play with LASERs. Learn about Quantum Science with interactive demonstrations.

Recycle Plastics and Learn Sustainability

Location: CPE 2.222
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Discover how to transform recycled materials into new creations using our mini injection molder, extruder, and polarizing microscope. Understand the recycling process firsthand.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Applying Science to Life Adventure, Sponsored by 3M.

Rescue Mission

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Location: ETC 2nd Floor T-Room
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Your challenge is to design a hook, pull the capsule from the water, and carry it to dry land. Inventors and engineers are looking always for ways to make things better and you can be one of them.

Robo-Puppies

Hosting Organization: NI-Emerson
NI-Emerson is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 1.610 in Texas Inventionworks
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Explore how engineers design robots to interact with people using sensors, mechanical actuators, and computer programs.

Robot Adventures: A Hands-On Coding Experience

Hosting Organization: Education Service Center Region 13
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Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Explore the exciting world of robotics with coding challenges for families to solve together. Coding develops problem-solving and critical thinking skills as you play and explore.

Rockin' Roller Coasters

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Location: ECJ 1.204
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Explore your creativity as you design your own thrilling and rockin' rollercoaster using foam pipes and marbles.

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.

Salt Caverns for CO2 Storage

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Location: ETC 4.120
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7

Explore our interactive CO2 storage prototype using a box, cotton candy, and vinegar. Discover innovative methods for energy transition.

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

Science Words Showdown and Paper Plane Challenge

Hosting Organization: UT Austin ATX Science Olympiad
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Location: WEL 2.100 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

Love Pictionary, charades, or trivia? Team up to guess the most science terms in a minute. Or, design an aerodynamic paper plane to hit targets with precision. Ready to test your skills?

See Robots, Build Robots

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Texas Robotics
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Location: AHG Courtyard
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Visit the courtyard of the Anna Hiss Gymnasium, the home of Texas Robotics, for demonstrations with real robots, including Medical Robotics, Autonomous Robotics, Robot Manipulation, or Nuclear and Applied Robotics. Demonstrations will be repeated throughout the day inside the building. This year, Texas Robotics will not be offering tours.

Demonstration Schedule: Beginning at 11:30 a.m., robot demonstrations will occur every 15 minutes with the last one starting at 2 p.m. You may join us for a demo at 11:30 a.m., 11:45 a.m., 12 p.m., 12:15 p.m., 12:30 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1 p.m., 1:15 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 1:45 p.m., and 2 p.m.

Demonstrations Location: Anna Hiss Gymnasium Courtyard - See Campus Maps for the location. Signs will direct you to the indoor locations from the courtyard.

AHG 1.308 - Gravity Robots and Activity Sheets
AHG 1.310 - Student Organizations and Labs
AHG 1.300 (the commons area) - Texas Robotics Demos

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

Seeing Science: Eye Teamwork

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Location: PMA 5.118
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Using red-green glasses, learn about the teamwork that your eyes do. Explore hands-on activities and games wearing these glasses to learn how your eyes work together.

Send Postcards to Space

Hosting Organization: Club for the Future
Location: ECJ 2nd Floor Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Write or draw your vision on a postcard for what you think the future of space will look like. We'll launch it to space and back on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket.

Smoky Bubbles

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Natural Sciences Council
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Location: WEL Front Entry Awning
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Dive into the fun of dry ice bubbles that burst into clouds of fog.

Snack-ademics

Hosting Organization: Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific is a STEM Girl Day Water Monster Sponsor.
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Location: PMA 7.116
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn the science behind your favorite snack foods. Make your own tapioca pearl "boba" balls using spherification and polymerization. And, learn about diffusion using skittles candy.

Snowstorm in a Jar

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Location: EER 0. Ground 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

Create a miniature snowstorm in a jar and explore concepts of density, chemical reactions, and visual effects.

Sorting/Processing Data vs AI & Circuit Bug

Hosting Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: EER 1.508
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Sorting/processing data vs AI provides a real world example of the advantages and limitations of currently available AI technology. Create circuit connections you can decorate in the form of a bug.

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

Sound Sandwiches and the Science of Sound

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Location: ETC 2.114
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Learn about the science behind sound. Engineer and create an instrument out of household materials that will allow you to make music at anytime.

This activity is part of the STEM Girl Day - Applying Science to Life Adventure, Sponsored by 3M.