STEM Girl Day Scavenger Hunt
Sponsored by Thermo Fisher Scientific
The UT Austin campus is filled with science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). As you explore campus for STEM Girl Day, look for the following:
- Find something that spreads out the weight or force, so it doesn’t crack or break.
- Find a giant red sculpture made of crossed steel beams. Walk around it. How does its shape seem to change?
- Find a place where shade changes how hot the ground feels.
- Find three different geometric shapes in one building design.
- Find something that would be impossible to build without engineering.
- Find something made of glass, metal, and concrete together. Why might engineers choose these materials?
- Find an example of a design that helps with accessibility for all people.
- Find something that uses electricity, but you cannot see the wires.
- Find a staircase that doubles as art, made from a huge steel column with various-sized engineered holes.
- Find something that would be impossible without coding or computers.
- Find examples of parallel lines and perpendicular lines in architecture.
- Find a place where engineers designed a building to let in light but keep out heat.
- Find a plant or green space that helps cool the environment.
- Find something that would be impossible to build without math.
- Find a multi-story glass wall where you can see students building robots, cars, satellites, or sensors.
- Find something that has been here a very long time. What clues tell you?
- Find a building with two towers connected by a skybridge so people can move between spaces safely.
- Find an object that looks like a cylinder, prism, sphere, or pyramid.
- Find something made of I-beams, like you might see in a bridge or skyscraper.
- Find something that would be impossible to build without science.
- Find a place where water is being drained or controlled after it rains.
- Find something that required teamwork from many different STEM fields to create.
- Find evidence of how humans changed the environment and how nature is changing it back.
- Find something that looks brand new. What clues tell you?