On Saturday, March 25th from 9am-12pm, the Society of Women Engineers Houston Area section hosted a Think Like An Engineer Badge Day - Daisy's for the Girl Scouts of San Jacinto.  There were over 20 students in attendance where we did three engineering activities with the students in order for them to earn a badge.  The activities included Don't Melt the Ice (chemical engineer) activity where students learned about heat transfer and insulation to keep their ice cube from melting, a Kinetic energy activity with building a Pinwheel (environmental/mechanical engineering) and a robotics engineering activity, Wigglebot, that allowed students to build and design their own robot.  Students enjoyed the robot activity the best and the parents were excited to see their students engaged and learning about engineering.  Thank you to all the volunteers that helped with the session, we could not do it without them.

IAGTE Day was a big success! We introduced 110 girls from 4th to 11th grade to engineering. The girls learned about filtration (civil engineering), electrolysis (chemical engineering), and how to make a rubber band car (mechanical engineering) all in one day. We truly hope we have inspired the girls to have an interest in engineering and can't wait for when IAGTE Day returns in November 2023.  

Kudos to the IAGTE team for putting together this fabulous event, sponsors for making it possible, and volunteers for bringing the event to life!

This year, we hosted our annual membership at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. It was super cool to sit at Morian's Overlook located right above the dinosaur exhibit and network with new and returning members. We loved seeing members connect and providing a common place to help build a community. We hope to see our new and returning members at one of the many upcoming events we have!