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New York City Girls Engineering Colloquium

New York University
May 5, 2008
Room 914, The Kimmel Center

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GWISE at Princeton University and WinC at New York University invites young women in 9th and 10th grade to the fourth annual New York City Girls Engineering Colloquium.  The program will give young women a taste of the tremendous creativity and innovation involved in engineering or science career, and show young women how engineering can help change the world.  

The event will include talks by women engineering professors and graduate students, demos of exciting on-going research projects in science and engineering at Princeton and NYU, and an engineering design competition where girls will be challenged to construct structurally-sound towers using only spaghetti sticks and gumdrops.  We will also the discuss the prerequisites required from obtaining an education in engineering, as well as the undergraduate science engineering experience. The goal of the program is to show young women that an education in engineering is both an attainable and rewarding goal. 

“I think that in terms of the needs of society and the opportunities in society, I can’t really imagine any education better than engineering to prepare you for whatever you are going to do after you graduate,” said Maria Klawe, formerly dean of engineering at Princeton and now president of Harvey Mudd College in California.  

An engineering or science education opens doors to careers in many areas, including: scientific research, finance, communication, management consulting, environmental engineering, third-world aid and development, biotechnology, architecture, and even law.

Past events were a great success!  See 2006 and 2007.

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Tentative Schedule

9:00 - 9:15

Introduction and Welcome

9:15 - 9:45

Overview of different areas of engineering by graduate students at Princeton and NYU (electrical, computer, environmental, chemical, mechanical, etc.)

9:45 - 10:15

Talk by Professor Jennifer Rexford from Princeton: 

Why engineering matters today.

10:15 - 10:45

Cool research in engineering: 

Talks by Stacey Kuznetsov from Google, and TBA from NYU and Princeton.

10:45 - 11:30

Lunch (provided!)

11:30 – 1:00

Design competition:

Team up to build a tower using only spaghetti and gum drops

1:00 - 2:00

Demo of projects at NYU and Princeton

2:00 - 2:30

Prize Ceremony (for tallest tower) and Wrap up

 

Event Location

The event will take place in room 914 of the Kimmel Center at NYU, 60 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Directions

 

Registration for High School Girls:

Each school may nominate up to 8 girls to participate in this event.  Please RSVP (with student names and grade years) by Friday, April 11 to gwise@princeton.edu or to the women who contacted your school.  Teachers are also welcome to attend. If you have more than eight girls who want to participate, please establish a waiting list, and we will let you know if we have extra space 

Volunteers from Princeton and NYU

Contact gwise@princeton.edu if you would like to participate in the event.  Travel to NYU is provided from Princeton for volunteers.

 

 

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