Pictured is a student enjoying one of the activities at the STEM Expo at Camp McMillen. Photo provided by Faith Van Gilder.

News Release

FORT WAYNE — Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana-Michiana will hold its seventh annual STEM Expo from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22, in the Walb International Ballroom at Purdue University Fort Wayne.

All girls in grades K-12 are invited. Non-Girl Scouts will receive a one-year membership as part of their registration, and all participants will earn a Girl Scout STEM Career Exploration badge.

The cost for this event is $5. Register at www.gsnim.org by Friday, Oct. 14.

The morning will include hands-on tabletop activities where girls will explore science, technology, engineering and math concepts at their own pace. Girls who are interested can pack a lunch and stay for an afternoon workshop with a woman in STEM that will include a special Q&A and a Girl Scout STEM activity.

Confirmed exhibitors include:

• Allen County Department of Environmental Management
• Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum
• DePuy Synthes
• Fairbanks School of Public Health at IU Fort Wayne
• Fort Wayne Metals
• Goshen College
• Humane Fort Wayne
• Indiana Tech: Biomedical Engineering Society
• Indiana University Fort Wayne
• LC Nature Park
• Manchester University
• Northeast Indiana Veterinary Emergency Specialty Hospital
• Purdue Fort Wayne: Environmental Resources Center, School of Polytechnic, Department of Psychology, American Society for Microbiology PFW Chapter, ETCS Outreach Programs, Future Girls of STEM, NISTEM
• Rural Sourcing
• Science Central
• SES Environmental
• Soarin’Hawk Raptor Rehabilitation
• Society of Women Engineers Northeast Indiana
• Speaks For Trees And More
• STARBASE IN Fort Wayne
• Steel Dynamics
• Sweetwater: Beats By Girlz
• Trees Indiana
• Trelleborg Sealing Solutions
• University of Saint Francis: Biology, Geology
• WPTA — ABC21 and Fort Wayne’s NBC

Sponsors for the STEM Expo include:

• NIPSCO/NiSource
• Trelleborg
• Sweetwater
• Rea Magnet Wire
• Fort Wayne Metals
• DePuy-Synthes
• Bollenbacher & Associates