The Sally Ride Festival will be hosted at Lamar University in the McDonald Gym this year. Elementary and Middle school girls will gather to attend this yearly festival. They will participate in a street fair and discovery workshops about science, mathematics, and engineering. Astronaut Sally Ride will attend to give an inspiring keynote speech.

Valerie Juarez will be the coordinator for the street festival. We will be hosting a booth with information about Inspired, Lamar University, and Computer Science.
Sally Ride Street Fair '09

Crystal Wettingfeld was the coordinator for the workshop. We hosted two 45 minute sessions with Lego’s NXT Robots. We had 6 members participate: Iris Garcia, Valerie Juarez, Rafael Romero, Daniel Vincent, Crystal Wettingfeld, and Cynthia Willis.

There were a lot of kids that attended Sally Ride. We constantly had numerous kids come up and want to see robot demos or try to program the robots. It was a lot of fun. For the robotics session, we had around 20 kids come to each session and we taught them to make the NXT dance. At the end of the session, all the robots were put together and danced to a song.