Category: K-12 at UAB

(Scroll down to see images from the events described in this article.) Kids in Engineering DayStudent volunteers from across the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Engineering worked to ensure that middle school-kids from around the greater Birmingham area had a blast during the 2020 Kids in Engineering Day (KIED) hosted on February […]

Engineering Boot Camp The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) launched an Engineering Boot Camp program with 17 local middle and high school students on September 21, 2019. Program participants are scheduled to attend 10 monthly workshops between September 2019 and May 2020 and a week-long summer program in June 2020. During the program, students […]

Girls in Science and Engineering Day (GSED) The 2019 University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB Girls in Science and Engineering Day (GSED) event took place at the UAB campus on May 20, 2019, and was a huge success! Eighty-three 6th to 8th grade girls attended the event, representing 32 different schools from north-central Alabama. The […]

The 2018 Girls in Science and Engineering Day (GSED) event took place at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) campus on May 19, 2018. More than 110 6th to 8th grade girls from 15 different schools in the Birmingham, AL, region attended the event. Students participated in three STEM workshops led by UAB faculty and […]