Girls in Math Day

Saturday, December 1, 2018

Event goes from 9:00am until 12:00pm; SWE will host two 60-minute workshops

Math Science Innovation Center, 2401 Hartman Street, Richmond, VA 23223

Richmond-SWE is participating in the annual Girls in Math Day, hosted by the VCU chapter of the Association of Women in Math (AWM). The event includes 165 middle school girls from 9 school divisions and is used to encourage middle school girls to study math.

As part of the event, Richmond-SWE will be leading a hands-on engineering activity - Ship the Chip - which challenges the students to use household materials to design a package for safely shipping a single potato chip. The team with the most undamaged chip and lightest packaging is declared the winner.

We are looking for volunteers to help facilitate our workshop! Email swe.richmond@gmail.com if you would like to volunteer or to find out more information.