Regional Leadership Conference Kids these Days Joan Labay-Marquez Education Outreach Chair Southwest Texas Section labaymar@uiwtx.edu
Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Celebrated internationally during Engineers Week Having fun doing hands-on engineering activities Meet students, professors and engineers from the industry See what it’s like to be an engineer
Description of Event More than 1,600 Families, students ( grades 1-8) participated including families and educators 96 activities: Grade-specific, hands-on engineering activities interact with UT students, staff, faculty, volunteers and engineers from industry Girl Scouts received a Girl Day patch Engineering Students had opportunity to develop leadership and presentation skills
Summary of Stats 1660 1-8th graders participated! Diversity 98% female 9%African American 26% Latina 12% Asian 1%American Indian and Native Hawaiian Geographically: 64% from Central Texas 15% from greater Houston area 11% from greater San Antonio area 10% Dallas, Laredo and Ft. Lauderdale
Publicity & Recognitions City Proclamation USA Today College Time Warner Cable News story KEYE TV news story The Daily Texan Student News Documentary Discover e Press Release Capital Hill Briefing Promotional video by Discover e
Corporate Program Support Monetary In- Kind contributions of materials- activities In-Kind contribution of check-in technology (Microsoft) In-Kind contributions of printing Hosted activities with displays/demos Girls Scouts designed Girl Day Patch (40% of participants were with Girl Scouts)
Program Support In total, 25 Community Organizations supported/volunteered 6 College programs outside of UT Austin participated 67 UT Austin engineering and science student organization, research groups, classes and programs Over 700 UT Austin students, faculty and staff participated in Girl Day
GivePulse On-line Volunteer Sign up
SW TX Student Chapter Volunteers
STEAM: Balloon Race Cars
Acknowledgments UT Women in Engineering Program; Tricia Berry, Director and AIAA member UT Austin AIAA Student Chapter Members UT Austin National Honor Society in Aerospace Engineering (Sigma Gamma Tau) Members
Resources UT WEP Bring a Girl to Engineering Day: http://www.engr.utexas.edu/wep/k12/girlday Girl Day Discover e: http://www.discovere.org/our-programs/girl-day AIAA National Engineers Week: https://www.aiaa.org/nationalengineersweek2015/