The WCE Outreach Team recently partnered with a local Girl Guides group for an engaging, hands-on evening of STEM exploration. Through a series of fun and interactive activities, the Guides were introduced to the creativity and problem-solving at the heart of engineering. Highlights included a classic egg drop challenge to explore forces and impact, colourful light prism experiments, and building intricate popsicle stick lattices that demonstrated how opposing forces can hold a structure together or cause it to rapidly “explode” when one piece is removed. The girls also created density columns to visualize how different materials interact.

The session was both educational and exciting, giving the girls a chance to think like engineers while working collaboratively and getting a little messy along the way. By the end of the evening, the Guides proudly earned their Engineers Canada badge, marking their introduction to the world of engineering.

Our volunteers had just as much fun as the participants, and it was incredibly rewarding to see the girls’ curiosity and confidence grow throughout the activities. Opportunities like this are at the core of WCE Outreach’s mission to inspire the next generation of women in STEM.