High School Day is an opportunity for female high school students to explore various fields in STEM. This event is held in the fall semester.

Student attendees participate in three STEM-related workshops of their choice. These workshops begin with an overview of the discipline and followed by a hands-on activity. The workshops are delivered by renowned CMU faculty and some amazing PhD candidates!

During lunch, we have a student panel with CMU engineering undergrads for student attendees to ask questions about CMU, student organizations, specific engineering fields, or just college life!

The event ends with a keynote speech from a notable female engineer. Her goal is to inspire these young girls to pursue their passion in STEM through personal anecdotes about what it means to be a woman in STEM.

Core engineering workshops include:

• Biomedical Engineering

• Chemical Engineering

• Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Material Science and Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

In 2024, the Special Topic Workshops were:

• Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command (CMRC)

• Computer Science (CS)

• Entertainment Technology Center (ETC)

• Music Technology

• Sustainable Earth

• Robotics

Middle School Day is very similar to High School Day.

Key differences include:

• Held in the spring semester

• No student panel

• Workshops activities are catered towards middle schoolers

• Special topic workshops are mostly student-run organizations.

Middle School Day is an opportunity for female high school students to explore various fields in STEM.

Student attendees participate in three STEM-related workshops of their choice. These workshops begin with an overview of the discipline and followed by a hands-on activity. The workshops are delivered by renowned CMU faculty and some amazing PhD candidates!

The event ends with a keynote speech from a notable female engineer. Her goal is to inspire these young girls to pursue their passion in STEM through personal anecdotes about what it means to be a woman in STEM.

Core engineering workshops include:

• Biomedical Engineering

• Chemical Engineering

• Civil and Environmental Engineering

• Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Material Science and Engineering

• Mechanical Engineering

In 2024, the Special Topic Workshops were:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)

• Carnegie Mellon Rocket Command (CMRC)

• Human Computer Interaction (HCI)

• Theme Park Engineering

• ChemZone

SWE++ is a free 8-week coding boot-camp targeted towards middle school girls. The girls will first learn block coding from Scratch and then move onto Python.

Lessons are 2 hours long and taught once a week. Instructors are CMU students.

The SWE High School Mentorship program is catered towards high school girls in the local Pittsburgh community looking for guidance on how to pursue an engineering education/career.

Through this program, we aim to connect high school students with CMU students to make them more aware of the different engineering disciplines they can pursue and how those disciplines are taught at CMU.

From the CMU Website: "The Engineering Ambassadors Network at CMU provides a high-quality engineering programming to historically underrepresented groups in STEM and strives to create opportunities for STEM exposure that reflect the needs of each community."

Site visits are smaller events in which we visit off-campus locations and host engineering workshops for children in historically underrepresented groups. Larger events, happen on-campus and tend to revolve around one theme.

The Engineering Expo is a large event and revolves around a theme like "Farm to table" where we plan out several engineering activities that explain the engineering that it takes to bring food from the farm to the dining room including transportation, packaging, and preservation.

Another large event is Destination Innovation where we place the students in hypothetical scenarios like the ice age or a zombie apocalypse and ask the students to design solutions to survive the night. We also have the students make DIY heat packs and catapults.

Kode4Kids Diamond Bar is a club that I cofounded at Diamond Bar High School. Our goal is to inspire children in our community to pursue a future in computer science through weekly coding classes that are fun, free, and of high quality.

Kode4Kids Diamond Bar also allowed members to develop and refine their skills in coding while earning volunteer hours. For some, Kode4Kids Diamond Bar has also been an opportunity to develop leadership, communication, and collaboration skills that will aid them in years to come.