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

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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

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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 * wep@engr.utexas.edu

Map of Engineering Area

Thanks to all 2014 Girl Day Partners:

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