Girls in STEAM Conference

Girls in STEAM Conference

Location: 
UC Irvine CaSTL Center
Host: 
CaSTL Outreach, Education and Diversity

The CaSTL Center hosted the Girls in STEAM Conference on Saturday, April 27th, 2019. The day was packed with varied hands-on workshops led by women and men in science, technology, engineering. Over 100 middle and high school girls (grade 6-12th) throughout orange county participated, and was given the opporunity to learn about STEAM careers led by CaSTL's Director of Outreach, Education and Diversity - Dr. Danielle Watt. Participants engaged in mulitiple activities, enjoyed a hosted lunch and took lab tours that focused on experiements and observations in reserach such as:

- Chemistry - Tickling molecules w/ lasers

- Chemistry - Making the invisible visible with IR light

- Chemistry of chocolate

- Chemistry of acids and bases

- Biology - Isolating DNA from living samples

- Computer coding - Mobile apps

- SciArt - Exhibit incorporating biology and artificial intelligence

- Materials Science - Making polymers

- Physics - Properties of liquid nitrogen

- Engineering - Design Challenge

The CaSTL team and our fabulous volunteers would like to thank all those that particiapted in the 2019 conference.

 

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