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Expanding Your Horizons: Brought to you by Science City

January 27, 2023 @ 6:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Olsson Engineering is sponsoring Expanding Your Horizons, an event for girls in grades 6-8 that will take place on Friday, January 27, 2023 from 6:00 to 10:00 pm at Science City at Union Station. The event will feature hands-on workshops with local female STEM professionals. There will be 21 workshops this year, ranging from aviation to cells to robotics. The keynote speaker will be Emily Arnold, Assistant Professor at the School of Engineering at the University of Kansas.

The event schedule is as follows:

6:00 – 6:30pm        Registration/Check-in Opens6:15 – 6:55pm        Planetarium Show (first come first serve) & Free Time in Science City7:00 – 7:50pm        Workshop #17:50 – 8:00pm        Break 8:00 – 8:50pm        Workshop #2
8:50 – 9:00pm       Break & Head to Extreme Screen9:00 – 9:50pm        Keynote Speaker in the Extreme Screen Movie Theater9:50 – 10:00pm     Turn in survey and head home!

Registration is required and limited to 400 participants. The cost of registration is $10.00. T-shirts may be purchased in addition for $15 each. The registration link and t-shirt order form can be found at https://uskc.wufoo.com/forms/sm5hb71104a1df/ and https://uskc.wufoo.com/forms/sd9yf8c1r1d3ux/ respectively. The deadline for both is Friday, January 13, 2023.

Details

Date:
January 27, 2023
Time:
6:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Event Categories:
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Website:
https://uskc.wufoo.com/forms/sm5hb71104a1df/

Organizer

Science City at Union Station
Phone
(816) 460-2000
Email
mailto:groups@unionstation.org
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Other

Audience
Girls
STEM Focus
Aviation, Biomedical Sciences, General Science, Robotics

Venue

Science City at Union Station
30 W. Pershing
Kansas City, MO 64108 United States
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