e4k+summer+program

Here are several activities that have been included in the SWE Introducing Girls to Engineering Workshop (IGEW)
 * Bounce into Polymer Science - super balls
 * AlkaSeltzer rockets
 * Sun protection with [|UV beads]
 * Chocolate Asphalt

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 * The Tech Awards - ideas for applying technology to benefit humanity, UN Millennium Development Goals
 * Foam Plate Glider - easy, good demonstration of flight characteristics and control surfaces
 * [|Pentose puzzles] 5 block shapes - Spatial reasoning - origami, [|think3d!] - promotes the spatial reasoning critical to success in math and science. Spatial thinking skills are an indispensable foundation for understanding math and science concepts and a recognized gap in spatial reasoning training * [|Spatial Course Learning Resources]
 * Ocean Engineering


 * [|National Academy of Engineering (NAE)] - [|14 Grand Challenges for Engineering] facing society during the next century. Students engage in research relating to their selected grand challenge, explore interdisciplinary coursework, gain an international perspective, engage in entrepreneurship, and give back to the community through service learning.


 * Yet - goals, things I want to be able to do, that I can't do to my satisfaction YET - ok to fail as part of learning, innovation involves some element of risk