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Sponsored Event Summary Organization Name__Society of Women Engineers_______________________ Sponsored Event Name____Scout Out Engineering Day______________________________________ Contact Name___Allison Collins______________ [email protected]________ Today’s Date___09-1-15__ Event Date_12-6-14 and 2-7-15_______ Time__10:30 – 3:30__ Location__Dow Building_____ Attendance/Participant Count_____150___ Have all expenses been paid? ___Yes_________ What were the goals of the sponsored event? How did you achieve them? Scout Out Engineering Day was held once during the fall semester and once during the winter semester. The goal of the event was to educate Girl Scouts about engineering and encourage them to pursue it as a career. The goals were achieved by giving girls tours of the engineering buildings, doing hands-on engineering design activities, a student panel and guest speaker Line Van Niewstadt for parents to help them encourage their girls in STEM fields, and an all-about- engineering presentation. The hands-on activities included making slime and learning about polymers; building a robot out of a toothbrush head, battery, and pager motor; building parachutes for toy figurines; an egg drop competition; programming lego robots to complete challenges; and more. Fall SOE day served girls in 4 th – 6 th grades while winter SOE day served girls in kindergarten through 7 th grade. How were responsibilities for this event structured and determined? For the fall semester SOE day, planning was done by the SWE Girl Scout Outreach Officer Allison Collins. SWE executive board members assisted with room reservations, pizza ordering, budget, etc. For the winter semester, a small subcommittee of around 6 SWE members was assembled, and the activities for each age group were planned by two members each.

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Sponsored Event SummaryOrganization Name__Society of Women Engineers_______________________Sponsored Event Name____Scout Out Engineering Day______________________________________Contact Name___Allison Collins______________ [email protected]________Todays Date___09-1-15__Event Date_12-6-14 and 2-7-15_______ Time__10:30 3:30__ Location__Dow Building_____Attendance/Participant Count_____150___ Have all expenses been paid?___Yes_________

What were the goals of the sponsored event? How did you achieve them?Scout Out Engineering Day was held once during the fall semester and once during the winter semester. The goal of the event was to educate Girl Scouts about engineering and encourage them to pursue it as a career. The goals were achieved by giving girls tours of the engineering buildings, doing hands-on engineering design activities, a student panel and guest speaker Line Van Niewstadt for parents to help them encourage their girls in STEM fields, and an all-about-engineering presentation. The hands-on activities included making slime and learning about polymers; building a robot out of a toothbrush head, battery, and pager motor; building parachutes for toy figurines; an egg drop competition; programming lego robots to complete challenges; and more. Fall SOE day served girls in 4th 6th grades while winter SOE day served girls in kindergarten through 7th grade.

How were responsibilities for this event structured and determined? For the fall semester SOE day, planning was done by the SWE Girl Scout Outreach Officer Allison Collins. SWE executive board members assisted with room reservations, pizza ordering, budget, etc. For the winter semester, a small subcommittee of around 6 SWE members was assembled, and the activities for each age group were planned by two members each.

What modifications do you propose if you were to host this event in the future?Keep the age range more limited than K 7; the 4th 6th grade event was more reasonable. Keep time 4 hours or shorter; fall SOE day was 5 hours and that was too long.How did you raise funds for this event? Girls were charged $8 for admission and parents were charged $6; SWEs Girl Scout Outreach budget supplemented these funds.How are you thanking donors and supporters? What are your stewardship practices?National Instruments donated the Lego Mindstorms robots we used, so on official advertisements and presentations at the event, that National Instruments logo was included and they were thanked during that portion of the event.