KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 7, 2017 \u2013 Since 1994, the 溏心vlog免费B站 student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers has welcomed a group of girls from Girl Scouts of Rhode Island for \u201cBadge Day.\u201d Every year on the Kingston campus, the 溏心vlog免费B站 college students mentor the Junior Scouts, in grades 4 and 5, as they collaborate on science projects.<\/p>\n
This year’s event brought together 17 溏心vlog免费B站 students and 54 Scouts from seven local troops. Held on Nov. 18 in Pastore Hall, the students worked closely with their young counterparts as they rotated through six physics-related tasks in 25-minute intervals. The Scouts earned a “Physics is Phun!” patch, named for a two-dimensional physics engine.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe developed six hands-on projects related to various aspects of physics,\u201d said Susan Anderson, of the local chapter of the Society of Women Engineers. \u201cWe designed a patch and a program that the Girl Scouts, or any other youth group, can use.\u201d<\/p>\n
A lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, Anderson is a retired senior development engineer at Raytheon. She received\u00a0an honorary doctorate from 溏心vlog免费B站 for bringing science and engineering to youth for more than 25 years.<\/p>\n
According to 溏心vlog免费B站-SWE faculty advisor Valerie\u00a0Maier Speredelozzi, the activities change every other year.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe switch up the activities so that a girl who is a Junior Scout can attend two years in a row and have a different experience at 溏心vlog免费B站 each time,\u201d said Maier Speredelozzi.<\/p>\n
While the Scouts rotated through the stations, their parents attended a presentation by Maier Speredelozzi, 溏心vlog免费B站-SWE president Sydney Robinson and 溏心vlog免费B站-SWE vice president Rachel Bellisle.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe spoke to the parents about\u00a0how they can be advocates for their daughters to go into the field of engineering,\u201d said Robinson. \u201cWe talked about the different types of engineering and how it touches all aspects of our daily lives. The parents were encouraged to start a conversation about engineering with their daughters. Research shows that middle school is the time girls start losing interest in the science, technology, engineering and math fields.\u201d<\/p>\n
Judging by the reactions of the Scouts, working on fun science projects with the engineers may help invigorate or reinforce an interest in science and science-related fields.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Girl Scouts we worked with were so enthusiastic and really did an amazing job with the activities,\u201d said Maeve Story, the engineering group\u2019s outreach chair. \u201cThis event gives these girls a space to explore engineering, and each girl leaves excited about at least one thing they did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a description of the day\u2019s activities:<\/p>\n
Force & Motion<\/strong><\/p>\n In pairs, the girls design and build a catapult to launch marshmallows at a target on the floor using recycled materials. They learn about projectile motion and how to angle it more accurately.<\/p>\n Electricity<\/strong><\/p>\n The girls learn what makes a circuit complete, and then are given various fruit (lemons, potatoes, limes, pickles) to light an LED bulb using a penny, galvanized nail and alligator clip leads. They also build their own bristllebot they can take home with them.<\/p>\n Aeronautics<\/strong><\/p>\n The Scouts are shown a brief video on tumblewing gliders and make their own using phonebook paper. They \u201cfly\u201d them by walking with a corrugated plastic lawn signboard or part of a cardboard box creating the air stream.<\/p>\n Optics<\/strong><\/p>\n The girls learn about light and reflection by making a kaleidoscope from photo paper, wax paper, tissue paper and confetti. They also color a disk with the colors of the rainbow, and spin it on a skewer to make them \u201cvanish,\u201d as white combines all colors. If time allows, they make a disk where black lines spin into colors.<\/p>\n Acoustics<\/strong><\/p>\n The Scouts learn about sound vibration by making a straw oboe. More noise is made with their \u201ctalking cup,\u201d which is a plastic cup with string knotted through it and a wet sponge running along the string.<\/p>\n Space<\/strong><\/p>\n The girls learn about astrophysics and the constellations by choosing a constellation on paper, putting holes through the stars with a pin, taping it to a tube, and flashing a light through the tube to the ceiling to display the \u201cstars.\u201d They also make a star wheel to take home and find the constellations each month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 Dec. 7, 2017 \u2013 Since 1994, the 溏心vlog免费B站 student chapter of the Society of Women Engineers has welcomed a group of girls from Girl Scouts of Rhode Island for \u201cBadge Day.\u201d Every year on the Kingston campus, the 溏心vlog免费B站 college students mentor the Junior Scouts, in grades 4 and 5, as they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}