Updated 03/27/08

Girl Scout Patch Day DaDay

The Hampton Roads Section of the Society of Women Engineers conducts an annual Engineering Patch Day for local Junior Girl Scouts.  The primary goal is to introduce these young ladies to Engineering as a career that these girls may one day choose.  The secondary purpose is to introduce them to simple engineering principles with hands on activities to interest them in science and math.

This year was the twentieth year that section has held the event and over a thousand girls have now gone through the program.  This year’s event was held at NASA Langley in Hampton, Virginia.  Sixty-two girls were introduced to the field of engineering on Saturday, October 13, 2007.  This program is very popular and fills up quickly.  The girls are split into groups of 10-13 and rotate them through different stations related to engineering and science.  This year’s stations were water filtration, building a bridge, buoyancy and density, a tour of one of NASA’s wind tunnels, environmental pollution (non-point source pollution model) and a creative design session to develop a way to carry radioactive ping pong balls.  The girls had a great time and were very excited about what they learned in the sessions.  At the end of the day the girls were awarded the Girl Scout Council of the Colonial Coast Engineering badge and a bag of goodies, supplied by local companies, to take home.

October 13, 2007