Cockrell School Hosts ‘Girl Day,’ Biggest Event of its Kind in U.S.

Feb 27, 2017

Girl Day By the Numbers

  • 6,400 — Kindergarten through 8th grade students registered for Girl Day 2017
  • 150 — Activities throughout the day
  • 7,200 — Inches of rainbow electrical tape to create LED butterflies
  • 12,000 — Straws to create sustainable pinwheels
  • 1,950 — Toy animals to save by constructing parachutes

The 2017 Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day was presented by Halliburton and the Girl Day STEM Festival was presented by Texas Instruments. View the full list of partner organizations at girlday.utexas.edu/partners.

For more information, visit girlday.utexas.edu.

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