Cockrell School of Engineering Introduces Thousands of Girls to Engineering

Event: Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day

When: 2-5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015

Where: Cockrell School of Engineering Complex at UT Austin
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/ecj.html

Registration is now closed.

Girl Day By the Numbers:

• 4,300+ First- through eighth-grade students registered for Girl Day 2015
• 93 Registered students in 2002, UT Austin’s first-ever Girl Day
• 800+ Community volunteers expected this year
• 100+ Activities throughout the day
• 9,000 Gumdrops used by students for various experiments
• 20,450 Toothpicks used by students for various experiments
• 18 Gallons of glue for the bounciest ball activity
• 2,800 Lifesavers used by students for the puff mobile activity
• 400 Shoeboxes and lids used by students for a pinball game

Background: The Cockrell School of Engineering’s Women in Engineering Program at The University of Texas at Austin will host more than 4,000 girls from across the state for its 14th annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, a daylong event of activities meant to spark creativity, inspire future careers and show how engineers can change the world. Girl Day has grown to become the largest of its kind in Texas and the country.

Elementary and middle school students from Austin, Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and dozens of Texas towns will engage in more than 100 engineering activities as diverse as designing a dome out of gumdrops and building a pinball game.

For more information, contact:

Sandra Zaragoza
Media Relations Manager
Cockrell School of Engineering
Zaragoza@utexas.edu
830-734-7510

Tricia Berry
Director of the Women in Engineering Program
Cockrell School of Engineering
wep@engr.utexas.edu