Saturday, February 13th, Girls In Engineering spent a fun day at Girl Scouts' STEMapalooza. The event was held at the beautiful Challenger Learning center in Woodstock, and was held to encourage and inspire girls to get interested in STEM.
STEMapalooza hosted many stationed activities, ranging from robotics to 3D printing. At our station, we had exciting experiments like creating tin foil boats and constructing towers out of pasta. With the tin foil boats, participants received a sheet of aluminum foil and they had to float five Hersey kisses; if they were successful. that they got to keep the kisses! This experiment was a big hit with not only the girl scouts, but also with the parents. The other fun filled activity was to build a tower with only five pasta noodles and two marshmallows. The goal was to construct it higher then our tower. With this event, so many girls became interested in STEM, which we were happy to see.
Without this event, many girls would have missed this experience with the wonders of STEM, and consequently in the future, might not be as likely to enter a STEM related field. We were ecstatic about STEMapalozza because we're always looking for new opportunities to get young girls involved and open to STEM. Both Girls In Engineering and Girl Scouts had so much fun at this event!
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| Girls In Engineering members Sage and Jessica |
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| Tin Foil Boats |
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| Parents and Scouts |
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| Marshmallow Towers! |
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| Amazing towers from Girl Scouts! |
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