Spaghetti Tower Showdown

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Location: ECJ 3.402
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Create the tallest tower using spaghetti and marshmallows while learning about trusses and stability.

Speed Racers: Vehicles & Physics

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Location: ECJ 1.322
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

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.

SproUTing Healthy Kids: Nutrition and Garden Connections

Sprouts Healthy Communities Foundation is a STEM Girl Day Presenting Partner.
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Hosting Organization: UT Austin EdEN Lab
Location: WEL 2.306
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Discover how school gardens connect kids with essential knowledge in all subjects and promote healthier lifestyles. Sample aguas frescas and fresh produce and identify herbs in our hydroponic garden.

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

STEM in Action: Explore the World of Construction

Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
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 us for a demo of heavy construction machinery and a unique photo op. Watch a Genie Lift reach high into the sky and explore a front-end loader. Experience STEM up close, ask questions, and watch construction in action.

Storing CO2 Underground: The Super Sponge and Magic Straw Experiment

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Location: ETC 4.120
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Discover how CO2 is injected into porous rock using wells, flows through, and gets trapped in tiny pores. Learn how CO2 interacts with rock in this hands-on demonstration.

SUIT Up: Get Ready for Space Missions

Hosting Organization: UT Austin NASA SUITS
Location: ASE 1.124
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Prepare for space missions by designing a wrist-mounted display and testing advanced VR/AR headsets, simulating the cutting-edge tools used by astronauts in exploration and research.

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.

Survivor Island: How to Get Fresh, Drinkable Water from Salt Water

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Charles A. Dana Center
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Location: WEL 1st Floor Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Stranded on an island, you can only find salt water but need fresh water to survive. Use critical thinking, modeling, and your understanding of states of matter to figure out how to get fresh water.

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

Sweet Science: Decorating Cupcake Cells

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Location: PMA 5.116
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Cells make up all living things, and look great doing it. Join us to use candy and cupcakes to explore the beauty of cells.

Tableting Lab: Craft Your Own Candy Tablets

Hosting Organization: AustinPx, LLC
AustinPx, LLC is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
Location: CPE 2.212
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Discover pharmaceutical science. Develop and compress your own flavored candy tablets using a real pharmaceutical equipment and fun tooling shapes. ?

Taking Care of the Texas Environment

Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is a STEM Girl Day Innovator.
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Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: Same as Primary and/or Inside Speedway Garage Ground Floor
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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.

Texas Colorado River: Rolling Exhibit

Hosting Organization: Colorado River Alliance
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Location: ASE Parking Lot 92
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7

Did you know that 100% of Austin's water comes from the Texas Colorado River? Take a trip through our 42-foot Mobile River trailer featuring educational video games and hands-on models to connect you to your water source.

Texas Tuition Promise Fund® and Match the Promise Foundation

Hosting Organization: Texas Tuition Promise Fund
Texas Tuition Promise Fund is a STEM Girl Day Bag Sponsor.
Location: EER 2nd Floor Lobby
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

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 Brain on Camera

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Location: SEA Building - Entrance Off Parking Lot 92
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 a MRI scanner simulation, see an MRI brain scan, and learn about other animal brains.

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

The Carnival of Numbers

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Location: WEL 1.316
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Play carnival number games, win prizes, and explore probability, the normal curve, and sampling.

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

The Hurricane Game

Location: PMA 5.124
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

A hurricane is coming! Can you tell how high the water will go? Learn about the many different factors behind hurricane-driven flooding like the Coriolis effect, high-tide vs low-tide, and more.

The Magic of Medicine

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Rho Chi Honor Society
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Location: BUR 220
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Watch the magic of medicine in action as we explore the chemical reactions that happen in our bodies to make us feel better.

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

The Science of Slime

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Sanoja Lab
Location: ECJ 3.406
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 how to make slime using household materials, and then use your creation to answer this question: is slime a solid or a liquid?

The Sky is NOT the Limit

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Location: ASE 2.134
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 rockets? Join the UT Austin Longhorn Rocketry Association for wind tunnel demos in our ASE building lab. Learn how you can get involved in helping our competition rocket fly!

The Slime Laboratory

Location: PMA 5.122
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Let's make slime! In order to make slime, we will don our personal protective equipment (PPE), complete a safety checklist and review safety data sheets (SDSs) to perform the slime experiment safely.

Slime Lab sessions will run every 20 minutes beginning at 11:30 a.m. The last session will be at 3:20 p.m.
Sessions start times: 11:30 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:20 p.m., 12:40 p.m., 1:00 p.m., 1:20 p.m., 1:40 p.m., 2:00 p.m., 2:20 p.m., 2:40 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 3:20 p.m.

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

The Ultimate Engineering Challenge: Construction, Communication, and Collaboration

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

Design, create, and construct your own K'nex bridge and test its strength. Then, communicate like an engineer with an Exact Instructions Art Challenge, and learn programming basics with an Arduino.

The UT Austin Physics Circus - STEM Girl Day Show

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

Enjoy the fascinating physics that surrounds our daily lives. Watch phenomenal physics demonstrations, answer fun physics questions, and volunteer in hands-on experiments.

Show Schedule: 45-minute shows repeated at 12:00 p.m. and 1:45 p.m.

Show Location: BUR 106. See Campus Maps for the location.

Trebuchet Balloon Launch

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Location: BUR 136
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Join us in learning about energy and motion while launching water balloons from our wooden trebuchet. Activity will be adjusted given the forecasted weather.

UT Austin Office of Admissions Information Table

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Office of Admissions
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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

The University of Texas at Austin is a top-tier university in the state, country and world. Visit us for information on what makes UT Austin a unique learning environment.

Water Filtration: Tree It to Believe It

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Kumar Research Group
Location: BUR 212
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Watch the water clear up right before your very eyes! Help us figure out how we can use Moringa Tree seeds to filter out "contaminants" (dye) from polluted water.

Water Treatment Filtration: Construct Your Own Filter

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Location: PMA 5.112
Rain Location: Same as Primary
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Knock knock! Who's there? Water. Water you waiting for? Come learn how water is filtered through different natural and chemical processes, then test your own filtration device.

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.