Last weekend, UNT SWE partnered with Girl Scouts to put on an Engineering Journey Day. During these events, local Girl Scouts came to Discovery Park to earn most of a large badge. The badges the girls worked on are part of Girl Scouts’ new STEM program.

49 Brownies (7-9 year olds) and Juniors (9-11 year olds) came up to Discovery Park to invent, design, and create all sorts of cool projects.

The Brownies made grabbers (that actually worked), learned about the water cycle, and created water collection devices.

The Juniors made structures that could hold up three engineering textbooks (with 8 sheets of construction paper and some tape), made structures that could withstand an earthquake (with only toothpicks, marshmallows, and gumdrops), and built emergency shelters by lashing poles together. After these activities were over both the Brownies and Juniors came together for a large catapult tournament.
Each of the two events had their ups and downs but the girls had a blast and got to learn how to think like an engineer from real engineers. Without the fantastic volunteers who helped out, neither of these events would have been possible.

Until next time!

 Anne Hathaway once said ,"A man told me that for a woman, I was very opinionated. I said, 'For a man, you're kind of ignorant.'”

Today we gather to celebrate the wide range of women and their accomplishments. Strong women, dedicated women, confident women that put themselves in positions that not only further themselves but all women together.

This years theme "press for progress" aims to highlight the strides we still have left to make in order to bring women up to the standards that they deserve. 

Let us raise our daughter and our sons in a way that the next generation can appreciate and respect each others unique qualities rather than their gender expectations. and let us not be ashamed of stating our opinions, our beliefs, for we matter.

To all the women in the world, we thank you