The University of Toledo College of Engineering’s award-winning Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day will welcome more than 750 seventh and eighth grade girls to campus on Friday, Feb. 23, and Friday, March 22.
The Introduce a Girl to Engineering Program Series provides middle school-aged girls a greater understanding of STEM-career fields through interactive programming and presentations by women in the field of engineering throughout spring semester.
College of Engineering’s award-winning Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day will welcome more than 750 seventh and eighth grade girls to campus on Friday and March 22.
Studies have found that girls tend to lose confidence in math and science and lose interest in STEM fields in early adolescence. The program has been built to show girls in this age group what the career path for women in engineering can look like, and to encourage them to make a career out of their interest in science, technology and math.
Girls will work with women engineers from local companies and engineering students on a variety of hands-on activities to better understand water treatment, transportation network designs, basic coding and programming, structural design principles, mechanics of propulsion, genetic engineering and cyber security.
UToledo’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day has twice won the National Women in Engineering Action Committee’s Girls Day Event of the Year award.
More than 750 girls from 15 school districts along with the 14 companies and organizations plan to take part in this year’s Introduce a Girl to Engineering Program.
Throughout the seven years of this program in action, more than 5,000 girls have taken part in this series from 32 school districts across Northern Ohio, along with more than 30 companies, 10 student organizations and individuals from multiple professional leadership groups throughout Toledo and northwest Ohio area.
