April 3rd, GEAR DAY
We were lucky that most of the girls were able to go to GEAR Day at ASU. The engineering department hosted a special day for the girl scouts to come down and learn about how to become engineers. The girls got to learn all about the different degrees/fields of engineering. They concentrated on demonstrating 3 of them.
For their Chemical Engineering, they got to "solve a crime", by testing ink strains they were able to tell which of the 4 pens wrote the ransom note. They had so much solving the crime!
For electrical engineering they assembled an electrical board with wires and light bulbs and batteries to create a "steady hand game" where they had to pass a wand through wires with out touching the wires and making the light bulb light up.
For the physical engineering they created a catapult that could sling their balls. Creating it from scratch the girls had a blast putting it all together.
The girls absolutely enjoyed their morning spent at ASU and quite a few of the girls would now like to be engineers when they grow up. How fun!
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