Girl Scout Troop 3394 members Stephanie McIntosh, left, and Karinna Kenner work on creating prosthetic legs from recycled materials Saturday at Ivy Tech Community College during Wow! That’s Engineering!, an event sponsored by Cook Medical and the Society of Women Engineers. The event aims to encourage young girls to think of engineering as a future career option. Staff photo by Jonathan Street
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Sixty local Girl Scouts spent their Saturday building earthquake simulation tables and prosthetic legs from recycled materials during an event designed to educate young girls about the field of engineering.
This was the second year for “Wow! That’s Engineering!”, sponsored by Cook Medical and through a program development grant with the Society of Women Engineers. It took place in Shreve Hall on the Bloomington campus of Ivy Tech Community College.
“You can’t be it unless you see it,” event coordinator and Cook engineer Asha Kirchhoff said of the importance of introducing the girls to female engineers. “We try to give them a role model for the day and show them that they do have the skills and the ability to be engineers someday if they want to be.”
The Girl Scouts organization recently added 23 new badges, ranging from designing robots to coding.
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