Promoting Hands-On STEM in the Community

Da Vinci Science’s Society of Women Engineers hosted a Swing into SWE community event with fun STEM activities for 30 girls and boys in third through fifth grade on May 18th. This was the second Spring into SWE event they have hosted to inspire youth, especially young girls, to get excited about STEM. 

Students engaged in fun, hands-on engineering challenges focused on environmental (wind turbines), civil (straw tower building), and bio (cardboard hand & boba), and learned about the career pathways offered at Da Vinci. 

The day kicked off with hearing from a successful female role model in STEM. Karen Abarca, a systems engineer at Northrop Grumman, shared about her work on the James Webb Space Telescope. The kids were super excited to learn that the Webb Space Telescope is the most complex and powerful space telescope ever built. 

Students in the Society of Women Engineers seminar prepared for this event for months, and look forward to continuing this tradition next spring. We can’t wait!