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IGED 2023 Post event Info

Thank you for attending and participating in a very successful event!

This year we were honored to host three events in celebration of this National day!

Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day is part of a national event dedicated to inspiring and encouraging young girls, non-binary, and genderqueer students to consider a career in engineering. Participants receive behind-the-scenes tours of cutting-edge businesses, participate in engineering hands-on activities, and learn about engineering careers along with the inspiring women behind them.

Thursday, February 23rd – Event in Partnership with Tesla

February 21st Virtual Introduce a Girl to Engineering

Friday, February 24th – Event in Partnership with UNR

Envirolution Programs

Helpful Links & Resources

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Thursday, February 23rd – Event in Partnership with Tesla

On Thursday, February 23rd, we hosted our first in-person IGED since 2020! Our first IGED partnership with Tesla was in 2018 and each year, we’re surprised at how much it grows! This year we had 90 students from Lyon County our to Tesla Gigafactory NV, and nationwide, we coordinated 14 IGED events at Tesla locations for with 500 students!

February 21st Virtual Introduce a Girl to Engineering

On Tuesday, February 21st, Envirolution and Tesla provided a virtual event to middle school students across the globe. This was our third year doing a virtual event, and we were so excited to have more than 3000 students registered from 42 counties and 43 states!

Friday, February 24th – Event in Partnership with UNR

Due to weather we had to make the difficult decision to postpone our event in partnership with UNR. We are already planning for 2024 and are excited to bring the students back to the University for this engaging and empowering day,

Envirolution Programs

Learn more about Envirolutions’ mission and vision by watching: Envirolution – The Choice

  • For students
    • Sustainability Expedition in Reno Nevada March 2024 – Join Envirolution on an exciting week-long event to explore STEAM careers, environmentally friendly practices, and 9the sustainability movement in Northern Nevada.  Register here.
  • For Your teachers
    • Career Quest – This is a community collaborative program that connects Nevada businesses to their future workforce by exploring STEAM and sustainability career opportunities.  Students engage in hands-on activities, behind the scene industry tours, and presentations that demonstrate and introduce them to the benefits of STEAM education and pursuing a career in a STEAM field.   
    • Project ReCharge – Project ReCharge is a hands-on, project-based Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) curriculum and training program that engages students, teachers, and community professionals. This interactive sustainability and energy education program provides valuable professional learning and classroom resources to teachers, who then empower 4th-12th grade students to become sustainability detectives focused on saving their home, school, and community money through energy efficiency and sustainability projects.

Social Media

Did you enjoy the event? Did you feel inspired to become an engineer? Are you thinking now what?  Well here are just a few suggestions.  We will continue to add resources here, so keep checking us out or join our newsletter and stay up to date on everything we do! Have other resources to share with other future women leaders? Please send them our way and we will add them.

Find a Mentor

Envirolution is excited to partner with Women in STEM by helping to connect our future leaders with mentors to help them along their engineering and STEM career paths.

Check out how to get a mentor, become a mentor or support their work! Million Women Mentors: https://mwm.stemconnector.com/resources/



Highlight a Scientist 

Join a Robotics Club!

FIRST Nevada Mission: To inspire young people to become science and technology leaders, by engaging them in exciting mentor-based programs that build science, engineering, and technology skills, inspire innovation, and that foster well-rounded life capabilities including self-confidence, communication, and leadership.

FIRST Overview: FIRST is an acronym: For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. It’s a non-profit workforce development program that challenges Pre K-12th grade students to work as a team to design, build and program a robot. This friendly competition gets students excited about careers in science, technology, engineering, arts, and math by providing them with hands-on applications of what is being taught in the classroom.  To learn more about FIRST Nevada programs, visit www.FIRSTNevada.org and for funding opportunities to start a new team, use this link.

If you are interested in FIRST programs outside of Nevada, visit www.FIRSTInspires.org to find a contact in your area.

University of Nevada Reno Workshops & Camps:

  • Engineering Programs Inspiring the Community (EPIC) Lab
    • These 2-hour workshops are held on Saturday mornings from 9 – 11 a.m. at the University of Nevada, Reno’s campus. 
    • We are currently focusing our workshops on solar power and what it means to live off the grid! 
    • These workshops are FREE and recommended to ages 6th – 8th grade. 
    • Upcoming workshops:
      • Saturday, March 5
      • Saturday, April 2
      • Saturday, April 30
    • For more information and to register, please visit our website: https://www.unr.edu/engineering/k-12/epic 
    • Questions may be directed to Sam Bickert, K-12 Outreach Coordinator, at sbickert@unr.edu or 775-682-7741
  • Engineering Summer Camps
    • Engineering Everywhere! Introduction to Engineering (ages 12-14)
      • June 27 – July 1
      • July 18 – July 22
    • Engineering Adventures: Introduction to engineering in the outdoors (ages 12 – 14)
      • July 11 – July 15
    • Engineering Everywhere! Introduction to Engineering (ages 15-17)
      • July 25 – July 29
    • For more information and to register, please visit our website: https://www.unr.edu/engineering/k-12/camps
    • Questions may be directed to Sam Bickert, K-12 Outreach Coordinator, at sbickert@unr.edu or 775-682-7741
  • Special Event Outreach Activities
        • If your school is interested in a private, on-campus engineering event, please reach out to Loren Pietsch at lpietsch@unr.edu for additional information.