Cedar Valley SWE Girls Conference

Name: Cedar Valley SWE Girls Conference
Start: 2024-10-19T08:30:00-05:00
Location: UNI Center for Energy and Environmental Education

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 08:30 am

UTC-05:00

Location

UNI Center for Energy and Environmental Education | Cedar Falls, IA

The Cedar Valley Society of Women Engineers is proud to host this year's Girls Conference in coordination with the University of Northern Iowa. Middle school girls (grades 5-8) will be able to do hands-on STEM activities hosted by local STEM professionals.
Please see our website for more information and to register:
https://sites.google.com/view/cvswegirlsconference2024/home
Some example sessions include:
Foundry in a Box | Bill Shafer, Carpenter Brothers Inc.
The participants will learn the metal casting process by creating a sand mold and pouring tin. Participants in this session MUST wear long pants and close toed shoes that cover their entire foot.
Iowa's Lost Worlds | Dr. Alexa Sedlacek, UNI Professor
Look at rocks and fossils deposited when Iowa was a tropical coral sea, a coastal swamp, and a tundra (complete with mammoths living the Black Hawk County)! Learn how to recognize common fossils from Iowa and how they help reconstruct past environments. Use sand art to illustrate the rock record.