WOW! Registration

Registration is now FULL. Please contact Beth White at beth.white@merrick.com to be added to our waiting list.

In this Wow! That’s Engineering! event, SWE Atlanta will be creating an experience for middle school girls (grades 6-8) where they have the opportunity to meet female engineers and technologists and hear first-hand about these exciting career paths. Women engineers and technologists present interactive activities and the girls experience the creativity and innovation that goes on in the field of engineering.

Requirements:

• Registrants must be in the 6th, 7th, or 8th Grade
• Registrants must bring a filled out permission slip to the event in order to participate.

Participants will participate in three activities/experiments as well as a panel where they are encouraged to ask our women Engineers/Technologists questions about their careers.

The experiments:

• Students will form hypothesis based on the interactions of common household ingredients, and will then do a fun, interactive experiment based on chemistry and molecular characteristics.
• Students will have a chance to build a boat using paper, tape and their imagination. We will then place the boats in water and compete to see which one holds the most weight.
• Students will have a hands-on opportunity to experience the strength of (small) rare-earth NdFeB magnets, which is the strongest magnetic material in the world.  The girls will use these magnets to explore the basic properties of magnetism and magnetic fields as well as the differences between two types of magnetic materials.