Event: Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, a free, interactive event at The University of Texas at Austin for first- through eighth-grade girls.
When: 2- 5 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 21
Where: The day’s events occur in various buildings within the university's Cockrell School of Engineering complex. Maps are available at www.utexas.edu/maps/main/areas/engineering.html.
Background: The Women in Engineering Program expects more than 1,000 Central Texas girls to attend Girl Day to participate in age-appropriate, hands-on activities such as designing an electrical circuit to create their own Operation-style game, designing their own bubble wand and testing various bubble solutions to make the biggest, strongest or strangest bubbles.
The day’s activities also will include robots, balloon rockets, solar vehicles and a bridge design contest.
The event increases girls' awareness of the contributions engineers make to daily life, encourages them to work hard in school and to pursue educations and careers in engineering. Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day is part of Engineers Week, an international celebration of the contributions of engineers to our world with programs designed to reach out to current and future generations of engineering talent.
There will also be more than 300 engineering students, faculty and staff volunteers from the Cockrell School of Engineering helping make the day a memorable learning experience.
For more information, visit: www.engr.utexas.edu/wep/precollege/girlday.cfm
