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This year, Cal Poly SWE introduced the first ever Winter SWE-EETY to local high schools! SWE-EETY stands for Society of Women Engineering Expanding Engineering to Youth and is our chance to visit high school classes and teach them about Cal Poly and engineering. Volunteers visited STEM classrooms of various subjects and grade levels throughout the week to give presentations about the different types of engineering and their experience at Cal Poly as engineers. Combined with d

On March 6th, Cal Poly SWE held our March Monthly Mentor volunteer event at Sanchez Elementary School. Four volunteers visited three fourth-grade classrooms to introduce students to mechanical engineering through hands-on activities. Volunteers began by talking with the students about what engineers do and how mechanical systems work in everyday life. After the discussion, the fourth graders used paper, cardboard, straws, skewers, and plastic bottle caps to create wind powere

The 8th annual SWENext Design Challenge, this year the prompt encouraged students to take inspiration to prototype an engineering marvel and make it applicable to their community, culminates at the Leadership Training Conference. Students prototyped incredible projects this year: a modern colosseum, a delivery drone (no flight, just proof of concept), a green-energy zero-waste classroom- complete with grass roof, solar panel wall, and interactive engineering projects througho

On February 5th four volunteers from Cal Poly SWE visited Sanchez Elementary School in Santa Maria for February's Monthly Mentor Visit with three fourth grade classes. The theme for this visit was Aerospace Engineering and the students got to create paper rockets and launch them by blowing air through a straw. The classrooms were full of excitement as students asked questions, helped each other troubleshoot, and celebrated when their paper rockets were successful. It was enc