Our 2019 Operational SMART program with Girls Inc. of Northern Alberta, was our most robust program yet, with 10 full weeks of STEM programming. We had 32 girls aged 9 to 14 participate in the programming, each week learning about a different STEM discipline.
The program schedule was divided as follows:
| Date | Topic | Activities |
| 14-Sep | Intro | Intro to Engineering Design: Bridge Building Intro to STEM disciplines and Design Thinking Egg Drop Challenge |
| 21-Sep | Mech | Roller Coasters and Catapults Potential Energy Cars Cardboard robotic arm |
| 28-Sep | Aero | Paper planes/helicopters/zip-line/straw rockets Soda bottle/pop rockets Drones |
| 5-Oct | Electrical | Intro to Circuits Renewable Energy: Solar and Wind power Littlebits |
| 12-Oct | Thanksgiving | |
| 19-Oct | 3D Modelling | Intro to 3D Design Medical Makers YMM Make-a-thon |
| 26-Oct | Computer science / Game Design | Intro to computational thinking / PB&J |
| 2-Nov | Civil | Traffic intersections and Ozobots Building design/Insulation/Sound proofing Earthquake Engineering |
| 9-Nov | Remembrance Day | |
| 16-Nov | Chemical/ Materials | Bioplastics and material properties Slime-Making and material properties |
| 23-Nov | Mining/Geotech | Porosity, Geology and Void Space Play Doh Core Sampling Oil Sand Extraction and Tailings Dams |
| 30-Nov | Environmental | Soil and clay characteristics Tailings dewatering / filtration and Water testing Animal Science and Biomimicry |
We had over 30 volunteers supporting this program from a variety of STEM disciplines and were able to partner with amazing organizations like Medical Makers, Queens in Code, Keyano College, ConeTec and of course the Oil Sands Discovery Centre.
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