DRHS Engineering Hosts Girls Power Event
DRHS Engineering Hosts Girls Power Event
Holly Anderson
Fifteen middle and high school girls gathered at Desert Ridge High School’s Engineering Lab in Mesa, Arizona, on Saturday, Oct. 16th, for the Girls Power STEM workshop, led by the school’s Engineering and Robotics program. Starting with bins of unassembled VEX IQ parts, the participants worked together to design, build, and program their own robots. With support from high school mentors, they created unique mechanisms, experimented with motors, and ultimately completed two functioning robots along with several creative prototypes.
Designed to inspire young women in STEM, the event encouraged hands-on learning, teamwork, and confidence-building. The workshop wrapped up with driving the high school team’s competition robot. The event sparked curiosity and enthusiasm for engineering and robotics.