The Chemistry of Slime

Hosting Organization: Leander High School Women in STEM
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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street Corner Area
Rain Location: BUR 212
Audience: Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

How do glue, borax, and water make slime? Find out! Create slime and learn the chemistry that explains how slime works.

The Flying Animal: Exploring Motion in Action

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Location: WEL 2nd Floor Grand Hallway
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5

Create a flying animal and learn about the science of motion.

The Grand Potion Brew-Off

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Let's Crush Medical Debt
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Location: ECJ 1.202
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create colorful potions while exploring basic chemistry. Compete against others by creating a potion most similar to our example.

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

The Gravity-Defying Origami Bird

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Location: PMA 6.112
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Create a paper bird that balances like magic. See how the shape and weight of the bird work together to maintain stability.

The Sky is NOT the Limit

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Location: Gregory Gym Plaza
Rain Location: ASE 1.102
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

If you love science and rockets, join the UT Austin Longhorn Rocketry Association for hourly rocket launches and to learn how their competition rocket flies. See you soon, captain.

The Slime Laboratory

Location: WEL 2.140
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Dive into the fascinating world of chemistry with a slime-making experiment.

The Ultimate Engineering Challenge: Construction, Communication, and Collaboration

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

Create your own bridge and test its strength. Communicate like an engineer with an Exact Instructions Art Challenge and learn programming basics with an Arduino.

The Wild West of Chemistry: Fog, Flames, and the Science Saloon

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Department of Chemistry
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Location: WEL 2.224
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Step into the Science Saloon where fog swirls, colors spark, flames dance, and adventurers in the Wild West of Chemistry enjoy a keepsake from the frontier. Shows take place at 11:20 a.m., 1:00 p.m., and 2:40 p.m.

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

The Wonderful World of Robotics

Hosting Organization: Q Bits Robotics Team
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Location: PMA 6.104
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 FIRST Robotics programs for students ages four to eighteen. Check out a demonstration of competition robots.

Trebuchet Balloon Launch

Location: CPE Plaza
Rain Location: BUR 108
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Learn about energy and motion while launching water balloons from a wooden trebuchet.

Up, Up and Away: A Wind Tunnel Challenge

Hosting Organization: Girl Scouts of Central Texas
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Location: ASE 1.126
Rain Location: ASE 1.126
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Can your creation conquer the wind? Create and test a bunny-copter inside a real wind tunnel.

Want to Save Lives? Start with the Basics: Medical Skill Training

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Location: PMA 5.118
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 how to perform basic medical tasks. Try out medical equipment, such as blood pressure cuffs, stethoscopes, and bandages.

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

Water Filtration: Tree It to Believe It

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Kumar Research Group
Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: BUR 208
Audience: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Learn how Moringa Tree seeds are used to filter contaminants from polluted water.

Water Treatment Filtration: Create a Filter

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

Knock knock. Who is there? Water. Water you waiting for? Learn how water is filtered through different natural and chemical processes and test a filtration device.

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.

Wearable Science: Make Ultraviolet-Bead Bracelets

Hosting Organization: UT Austin Austin STEM Buddies
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Location: Speedway Mall - 24th Street to East Mall
Rain Location: BUR 224
Audience: Grade K, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4

Create your own beaded bracelet that changes color when exposed to ultraviolet light.

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

Weather Hunters: Create an Anemometer

Hosting Organization: Austin PBS KIDS
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Location: CPE 2.204
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6

Build an anemometer, a device that measures wind speed. Experiment with your design, collect data, and explore how weather scientists investigate changing weather conditions.

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

What is Cool About Liquefied Natural Gas? Everything!

Hosting Organization: Shell
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Location: CPE 2.216
Rain Location: Same as Primary Location
Audience: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8

Check out a demonstration of the fuel Liquefied Natural Gas through activities and a video. Learn about the characteristics, uses, and benefits of Liquefied Natural Gas.

Wild Weather Shelter

Hosting Organization: HDR
HDR is a STEM Girl Day Innovator
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Location: EER 0. Ground Floor Auditorium Foyer
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

Demonstrate your engineering, architecture, and resiliency skills by creating a shelter to withstand inclement weather.