On April 25th, we were planning to host an event for girls in 3rd-5th grade. The girls would have gotten the chance to select a female role model to spend the day with, and together they would explore engineering. We planned activities around our version of the olympics, the Stemolympics, where we were going to display female engineers who had earned “gold medals” in their discipline. The pairs would go through hands-on activities in the morning and a team design project in the afternoon to build bottle rockets. During our lunch break a Chemistry Professor, Gretchen Adams, was going to display some demos for the girls to enjoy. We wanted to show them science in action, through the instruction of another female in the STEM field. We were so excited to spend a day encouraging young girls to think about pursuing engineering as their future. I know that I was really interested in science since when I was their age, so I was excited to show them different examples of futures they could pursue in science fields. It’s too bad we had to cancel the event this year, but I know this event will be great in the future!