Girls’ Engineering Day at UT

By Mary Lamare

Several GSA students attended the annual UT Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day event last month. From the first grade Caroline, Molly, Jadin, and Sofia attended. Second graders Savannah, Maya, Sophie and Mia enjoyed the day, Third grader Scout and sixth grader Stevie were also present.

Stevie said “I went to this robotics class and they taught us how to whack ping pong balls with RCX robots. I left early to go to Dance Dance Mania, where they taught you how to connect two wires to make dance pads. I definitely want to go back!”

Scout said “I liked the gumdrop dome. You take toothpicks and gumdrops and make a dome that can hold up two or three water bottles.” Mia and Maya both liked Sliders and Gliders. They built gliders out of straws and paper strips. Their gliders landed as close as possible to a letter “X” on the floor. Mia won three pins and Maya also got a prize. Both girls said that they would go again.

Savannah thought that the day was a lot of fun. Her favorite part (until it got all over her carpet at home), was making Gack, or “putty matter,” as she affectionately calls it.

Caroline was most impressed by a demonstration in which living flowers were frozen by dry ice (or possibly liquid nitrogen), “whacked on a table and BOOM broken into a million pieces!” She said that she was alarmed as a piece flew just past Stevie’s head, but Stevie just laughed.

GSA Student to Attend Engineering Camp

Abigail (6th Grade) is the first GSA student to be selected for the prestigious University of Texas Careers in Engineering for Women (CEW UT) Summer Camp. Abigail’s family is very proud of her. She first had to write a report and submit a teacher’s recommendation. For the teacher’s recommendation, Abigail chose Mrs. Lamare because Mrs. Lamare worked closely with her on the Lego League competition in the Fall.

We wish Abigail luck! If you see her on campus please feel free stop her and ask her any questions that you may have.