Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day Participation for
Girl Scout Troop and Council Leaders
Welcome and explanation
- We know it’s a busy time of year for you since it’s cookie time. But guess what? You can thank engineers for getting those cookies to you and your customers. They help with cookie chemistry, manufacturing boxes and the delivery systems that get cookies to you in one piece. You and your girls are invited to have fun while learning about engineering and we’ll help you get started.
- For Engineers Week 2007 we invite you to participate in the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day campaign and/or the Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering. This project runs February through March. Your troop can receive a $50 participation grant - see application link, below. 40 grants will be awarded.
- Below you will find participation ideas but you are not limited to these.
- Send electronic photos of your engineering activities to eweek@nspe.org and we’ll post them!
 24-Hour Global Marathon.
Beginning at noon EDT on March 22, 2007, and ending at noon on March 23 we connect continuously via the “Global Marathon For, By and About Women in Engineering”. Your girls can chat via Internet or telephone with women engineers and executives and college students around the world. Topics will range from a session on Cybersafety to how to determine if an engineering college is female-friendly to what it’s like to be an engineer. Troops participating in this event may also receive free copies of the book Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers.
 Design Squad:This new television show puts the E in STEM for middle school girls! Check your local television listing to see when Design Squad airs for you . Design Squad features two teams of real high school kids who use their problem-solving skills to design, construct, and test engineering projects such as a simple machine that will turn peanuts into peanut butter for a co-op in Haiti and a wedding dress that converts to a honeymoon tent. Host a party to watch Design Squad and try an activity. You can request a free kit or simply download an activity of your choice.
 Cyberchase: Check your local television listing to see when this popular television show airs for you. With our Cyberchase activities this is one of the only ways to link math to engineering and it’s fun! You can request a free kit or down load an activity. Create a Cyberchase party with your elementary school-age girls.
 ENGINEERGIRL.ORG: Girls can interview women engineers throughout the globe and we’ll post the results. Troops participating in this project may receive free copies of the book Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers, Consider donating a copy of the book to your local library and ask the local newspaper to take a photo.
 See the USA the engineering way. Have a travel party and visit this site. You can have an online scavenger hunt for girls to find a jellybean factory; the world's tallest and fastest roller coaster; or the largest TV sound stage between California and Florida. Your girls can suggest engineering sights in your community to the National Engineers Week Foundation.
 Activity Suggestions
Do it! We have lots of fun hands-on activities to help your girls get a glimpse of engineering. Try one or more.
Apply for a $50 grant. One per troop. There are 40 available grants for $50 each, as well as free copies of the book Changing Our World: True Stories of Women Engineers and certificates of participation. Grants can support anything from supplies for hands-on activities to food for events to admission to a local science center. Your activities can take place February 1-March 23, 2007.
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