SWE-ECI hosted two events on Saturday, March 23 at the Kirkwood Regional Center in Hiawatha: Senior Girl Scout day, and a K-2 Girl Scout event. This Robotics themed event called "Design Your World" was attended by 55 girls - 7 middle schoolers and 48 girls in Grades K-2. We had 93 people in attendance, about 20 were our volunteers.
Demonstrations were done by a local group called SteamOn - which sponsors First Lego League groups and teaches Robotics to different groups in the CRMetro area, and by Brittany GIvens from U of I, who helped the girls make elephant toothpaste!.
The younger girls made binary bracelets, walked through a maze like robots, and learned about the Ozobot. The older girls also made a binary keychain (and had to tie their own knots) and then built and programmed Lego Mindstorms robots.
Event sponsors include Hyvee, Collins Aerospace, SteamOn, and Girl Scouts. Everyone went home with a Collins drawstring bag, a t-shirt, a toothbrush with SWENext logo on it, and a few more giveaways, and lots of handouts with good info to take home. They also went home full of pizza!
One of the really cool things to watch (besides girls having fun!) was the networking our volunteers were able to do in between their mentoring responsibilities. This network of amazing women has so much to share and teach each other. Awesome! Thank you to all who volunteered and provided leadership for this event. Let's do it again next year!
Demonstrations were done by a local group called SteamOn - which sponsors First Lego League groups and teaches Robotics to different groups in the CRMetro area, and by Brittany GIvens from U of I, who helped the girls make elephant toothpaste!.
The younger girls made binary bracelets, walked through a maze like robots, and learned about the Ozobot. The older girls also made a binary keychain (and had to tie their own knots) and then built and programmed Lego Mindstorms robots.
Event sponsors include Hyvee, Collins Aerospace, SteamOn, and Girl Scouts. Everyone went home with a Collins drawstring bag, a t-shirt, a toothbrush with SWENext logo on it, and a few more giveaways, and lots of handouts with good info to take home. They also went home full of pizza!
One of the really cool things to watch (besides girls having fun!) was the networking our volunteers were able to do in between their mentoring responsibilities. This network of amazing women has so much to share and teach each other. Awesome! Thank you to all who volunteered and provided leadership for this event. Let's do it again next year!
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