Girl Guides take over TMU
Badge Day is an annual event where universities open their doors to Girl Guides and help them learn about engineering. Photo credit: Colleen Stock.
This past Family Day long weekend, nearly 80 Girl Guides aged 5-11 descended onto the TMU campus for “Badge Day”.
Badge Day is an annual event where universities across the country invite young girls to learn about engineering from students while getting hands-on experience in designing and building their very own crafts. TMU participates in Badge Day along with other institutions in British Columbia, Alberta, Manitoba, Ontario and PEI. At the end of the event, each Girl Guide receives an engineering badge and goes home with the knowledge that one day, they could choose to study engineering, too.
Badge Day 2024 at TMU included 78 Girl Guides and 25 Unit Leaders from 12 Girl Guide units across the GTA, including Mississauga, Oakville and Toronto. Photo credit: Colleen Stock.
The Girl Guides in attendance at TMU’s Badge Day learned about engineering and the nine different areas of engineering offered at the university. Photo credit: Colleen Stock.
The Girl Guides made their own ferris wheels out of popsicle sticks and got to bring their craft home at the end of Badge Day. Photo credit: Colleen Stock.
28 undergraduate engineering students at TMU helped the Girl Guides with their ferris wheels and answered questions about studying engineering. Photo credit: Colleen Stock.
At the end of Badge Day 2024, each Girl Guide received a special badge, specifically, the Ontario Network of Women in Engineering Crest. Photo credit: Colleen Stock.
The intention behind Badge Day is to encourage young girls to consider engineering as a possible career. Sounds like it's working based on one Girl Guide’s idea: “If I could invent anything with engineering, I’d design a memory machine!” Photo credit: Colleen Stock.
To learn more about engineering outreach programs, please contact feasoutreach@torontomu.ca.
