SOE Day Sponsored Event Summary
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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_______
Building_____
Time__10:30 – 3:30__
Location__Dow
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-aboutengineering 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 – 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 4 th – 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; SWE’s 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.
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_______
Building_____
Time__10:30 – 3:30__
Location__Dow
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-aboutengineering 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 – 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 4 th – 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; SWE’s 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.
