Widener’s 12th Annual Engineering Mini-Camp for High School Girls offers teenage girls interested in science and math a hands-on introduction to the wide variety of problems engineers solve every day. The students can explore engineering careers in a laboratory setting on Saturday, Feb. 5, 2011.
Sponsored by the Society of Women Engineers and Widener’s School of Engineering, the camp encompasses a wide range of engineering fields and includes laboratory sessions such as Roller Coaster Design, Tower Building, Bridge Design Software, Biomedical Engineering, Water Treatment, Aerodynamics, Programming Robots, Lie Detectors, Pavement Design with Chocolate Asphalt, Reaction Kinetics and electric-powered LEGO vehicles. There will also be two panel discussions on choosing a career in engineering.
The camp runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Main Campus of Widener University in Chester, Pa. In addition to the lab sessions, women engineers from the Philadelphia section of the Society of Women Engineers will be on hand to discuss career opportunities in engineering. A companion program for parents, “Sending Your Daughter to Engineering School,” will run simultaneously with the Girls Camp.
The camp is free, but attendees must pre-register in advance. For further information and on-line pre-registration visit, www.widener.edu/engineering/girlsminicamp, or call the School of Engineering at 610-499-4037.
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