Join us on campus to be immersed in our world of design, creation, and innovation.
Girls in STEM Days
![3 girls on computers with electronic boards and speakers](/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg_generic_large_x1/public/2019-07/UTSMicrobitActivityEAExperienceIT%20%288%29%20cropped.jpg?itok=fvT8qQOl)
Year 7-10 students participating in UTS' Microbit Musical activity at Engineers Australia Experience IT Day 2019.
2020 Dates
Due to COVID-19, these events will not be run on campus in 2020.
What will the day involve?
- Explore different areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, Design and Building through 1 hour hands-on activities such as:
- Building games
- Coding industry 4.0 robots to create towers of blocks
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Measuring your own blood pressure, heart rate, and lung capacity, and discovering their importance in health using medical devices
- Designing user experiences for customers of your own business
- Investigating how cyber security attacks happen
- Meet women currently studying and working in STEM at UTS and hear about what they create, build and design
- Ask questions to a panel of students, academics and professionals
- Year 11 and 12 students can choose to spend the day diving deep into a Engineering or Technology project, using design thinking to solve real-world problems using technical skills. Projects could include:
- Automation of repetitive tasks using 'Dobot' robots
- Designing and prototyping infrastructure for populations living in diverse environments
- Building an electronic data logger programmed to capture data from various sensors, establish a WiFi connection and synchronize data to the cloud.
No prior experience or knowledge is required.