is back for the first time since 2019!
This ÌìÃÀÓ°ÊÓ´«Ã½ College of Engineering event brings thousands of elementary and middle school students from all over Washington to campus to be engineers for a day. Students participate in more than 100 hands-on activities — with names like “Walk on Water” and “Electrochemical Engin-earring” — that demonstrate cool engineering concepts.
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This year 3,801 students registered to attend the event on May 2 and 3,495 students registered to attend the event on May 3.
Discovery Days is part of the College of Engineering’s effort to prepare K-12 students for success in STEM. Kids, parents and teachers get a chance to meet UW engineering faculty, staff and students for a fun and educational day of activities including making ice cream, creating colorful earrings from titanium metal, building a mini edible bridge, and seeing demonstrations of drones, robots, cars, trucks and aircraft.