Engineering Your Tomorrow 2025

Nearly 100 middle school girls from 30 Delaware schools spent a day diving into STEM at "Engineering Your Tomorrow," hosted at Conrad Schools of Science. Guided by female engineers and scientists, the girls tackled three hands-on activities, explored different STEM careers at lunch and wrapped up the day with a drone display by Dynamic Systems. Every activity was designed to spark curiosity and help girls believe that they belong in STEM.

Engineering Challenge:

Girls brainstormed and sketched their doghouse designs as a team.

STEM professionals described the engineering challenge and design specifications.

The girls were very creative in their designs.

Girls brainstormed and sketched their doghouse designs as a team.

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Teams used the engineering design cycle to build, test and redesign doghouses within specifications to keep their toy puppies cool on a hot Delaware summer day. Designs were put to the test under heat lamps, then girls shared their solutions and voted for “Coolest Canine Castle” and “Best in Show.”

FMC volunteer describing careers in agricultural sciences to the girls.

Hologic volunteers talking about careers in women's health.

Everyone loves to proclaim their love of science and engineering with stickers.

FMC volunteer describing careers in agricultural sciences to the girls.

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Career Fair

During lunch girls explored different careers while learning about new fields of science and engineering.

Afternoon Activities

After lunch girls extracted DNA from strawberries, built a homopolar motor and learned about drones and pilot licensing in DE. Parents and guardians participated in career panels and learned about additional STEM activities for their girls.

Extracting DNA from strawberries.

Graduate students from Univ. of DE serve as near-peer mentors.

One of our award winning teams accepting their award.

Extracting DNA from strawberries.

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Thank You to Our Volunteers and Generous Sponsors

Lt. Gov. and Honorary Co-Chair of MWM Bethany Hall Long helped us kick off the day.

Our near-peer mentors from UD lead girls groups throughout the day.

Thank you to our sponsors for providing financial support and in-kind donations.

Lt. Gov. and Honorary Co-Chair of MWM Bethany Hall Long helped us kick off the day.

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