2014 girl day program
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February 22, 2014
Girl Day Activities 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
WEP extends a special Girl Day 2014 thanks to… Halliburton as our 2014 Girl Day Lead Partner. All our partners and volunteers for their time and energy. The Girl Scouts of Central Texas for their fabulous Girl Scouts and volunteers. Science in the Movies for sharing the excitement of engineering in movie stunts & special effects.
1st -3rd Gr
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Gumdrop Dome CPE 2.204 Hosted by the American Society of Civil Engineers - UT Austin Branch and Bechtel Crazy About Kites CPE 2.206 Hosted by Texas State Technical College - Waco, WEP First-year Interest Groups, and Gulf Coast Power Association emPOWERing Women Committee Bunny Copter CPE 2.208 Hosted by the Society of Women Engineers - Baylor Section and the Society of Women Engineers - Southwest Texas Section
Can You Handle the Pressure? CPE 2.210 Hosted by the YPW Camps and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers
Sound Sandwiches CPE 2.212 Hosted by the Engineering Chamber Orchestra Rescue Mission CPE 2.214 Hosted by the Society of Women Engineers - UT San Antonio Section Slider’s Glider CPE 2.216 Hosted by the Society of Women Engineers - Texas State University Section RoboMania CPE 2.218 Hosted by National Instruments
Bubble Shapes CPE 2.220 Hosted by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas and WEP First-Year Interest Groups
4th -5th Grade
Blowing in the Wind: Wind Tunnel ETC 1st Floor Hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Breakfast Proteins ETC 2.102 Hosted by the Biomedical Engineering Society and Beta Mu Epsilon BME Honor Society Cosmetic Engineering ETC 2.108 Hosted by BASF
Critical Load ETC 2.114 Hosted by Caterpillar, Society of Asian Scientists and Engineers and Graduate Engineering Council
Parachute Parade ETC 2.132 Hosted by the Pi Sigma Pi Academic Society and ExxonMobil
Puff Mobile ETC 2.136 Hosted by Halliburton and the Student Engineering Council
Seeing Radiation: Nuclear Science Experiments ETC T-Room Hosted by the American Nuclear Society
Rube Goldberg: 20+ Steps to Zip a Zipper ETC 6th Floor Hosted by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
Be a Traffic Engineer ETC Computers Hosted by the Institute of Transportation Engineers and the Intelligent Transportation Society
Helping Hand NOA 1.102 Hosted by Intel and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Girl Scouts Lady Cans Robots NOA 1.110 Hosted by the Girl Scouts of Central Texas
Rocket Powered Ski Lift NOA 1.116 Hosted by the Society of Women Engineers at UT Austin and Fluor
Pinball Wizard NOA 1.124 Hosted by Pi Tau Sigma ME Honor Society and General Motors
Bristle Bots NOA 1.126 Hosted by IBM and the Women in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Puzzle Partners NOA Patio Hosted by the Texas Advanced Computing Center and Eta Kappa Nu ECE Honor Society 6th
-8th Gr
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Activity Presentations Every 20 Minutes Beginning at 2:00 (2:00, 2:20, 2:40, etc.)
Schedule 1:30 - 3:00 Check-in, NOA Lot Tent 2:00 - 5:00 Girl Day Activities 3:30 - 5:30 Survey Collection & Goodie Distribution, NOA Lot Tent 4:30 - 5:30 “Science in the Movies” Show, CPE Plaza
Participants: AFTER 3:30 turn in your completed survey at the check-in tent for a Girl Day goodie. (We have PLENTY—no need to rush!)
4th -8th Grade
Physics Circus (shows at 2:00 and 3:00 - limited space) RLM 4.102 Hosted by the Physics Circus from the UT Department of Physics Super Golf Tower RLM 5.104 Hosted by the National Association of Women in Construction Toothpick and Marshmallow Bridges RLM 5.114 Hosted by the Women’s Transportation Seminar Beyond Post-its®: 3M Technology RLM 5.116 Hosted by 3M
Paper Table RLM 5.120 Hosted by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning
Air, There, and Everywhere RLM 5.122 Hosted by Undergraduate Women in Physics
Thrill Ride ~ Roller Coasters RLM 7.112 Hosted by Girlstart
Spaghetti Towers RLM 7.114 Hosted by the Thinkery
Cupcake Coring RLM 7.116 Hosted by Chevron, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Women in Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering
Nanoscience for Energy Challenge RLM 7.124 Hosted by the Lab of Dr. Guihua Yu, Department of Mechanical Engineering
In order to ensure enough materials for all students, Activity Room participation is limited to the activities in the building designated for your grade level or to those activities designated for all ages. Wristbands, decorations and signs are color-coded to match the age-appropriate building. All Ages activities are open to everyone.
SPECIAL NOTE:
Keep Girl Day Free: Donate Now:
#GirlDay2014 @UTWEP
THANKS to 2014 Girl Day Lead Partner
All Gr
ades
CPE PLAZA Changing Expectations
Chemical Engineers & Science Tricks - American Institute of Chemical Engineers
Cool Girls Code - PyLadies ATX
Dancing Polymers: Gangnam Style - Omega Chi Epsilon ChE Honor Society Driving Robots - IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Freezing Fun with Liquid Nitrogen - Korgel Research Group Geodome - American Society of Civil Engineers - UT Austin Branch
Polymer Slime - Society for Biomaterials
Pump-Jacks and Drill Bits - American Association of Drilling Engineers Race to Save the World through Engineering - Engineers for a Sustainable World
Seeing Sound - Acoustical Society of America
Simple Concepts in Petroleum - UT Austin Petroleum & Geosystems Engineering Dept.
Solar Power - Austin Community College Renewable Energy Student Association
Super Absorbent Polymers - BASF
To Mars and Beyond: Build Your Own Rocket - Texas Spacecraft Lab
WIALD Water & SWE Snacks- Society of Women Engineers - UT Austin and Women in Aerospace for Leadership & Development
RLM / ECJ PLAZA Building Blocks: A Skyscraper Challenge - Chi Epsilon CE Honor Society Design Our World with Architectural Engineering - ArchE Institute
Pedal Power: Power Bike - IEEE Power and Energy Society
Optical Magics - Yaguo Wang Lab Organ Matching: Where’s Your Spleen? - Biomedical Outreach & Leadership Team
NOA PARKING LOT and PLAZA 4-H CAPITAL AmeriCorps Project Austin STEM Academy Automotive Engineering - Society of Automotive Engineers
Balloon Mapping - Rackspace
Don’t Sink the Titanic - ME Graduate Student Board and Women in ME Fun with Optics - Biomedical Optics Graduate Organization
Girl Scouts of Central Texas Girls, Inc. of Greater Austin
Girlstart iD Tech Camps Lemonade Day Austin - Entrepreneurs Foundation of Central Texas
Medieval Engineering: The Trebuchet - Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society
Skillpoint Alliance: Make-Do
Straw Rockets - Women in Aerospace for Leadership and Development
Student Engineering Council Goodies SWE Snacks- Society of Women Engineers
UT Solar Vehicles Team
Water Rockets - Longhorn Rocket Association
ECJ 1.202 - 1st Floor Austin Community College
Hands-on Science
Thanks to all our in-kind contributors! Thanks to local Payless ShoeSource stores for shoe box lids and Home Depot Store 6542 for paint stirrers. Thanks to Minigrip for kit baggies. Thanks to IBM for the printing
of this program and the activity passports. Thanks to National Instruments for the printing of the survey.
UT Austin Women in Engineering Program (WEP): Transforming Lives ~ Empowering Women www.engr.utexas.edu/wep * 512-471-5650 * [email protected]
Map of Engineering Area
Thanks to all 2014 Girl Day Partners:
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