SheTech Explorer Day is a FREE, one-day career discovery day for high school girls.

Explore STEM careers in hands-on workshops taught by STEM role models

Get innovative with a real-world STEM problem solving challenge – including prizes!

Learn how to find, fund, and thrive in the right post-secondary educational opportunity

Meet dozens of real people and organizations working in STEM

Join Us for SheTech on January 28th, 2025 at the College of Idaho

8am – 8:45am: Check In

8:45am – 9am: Welcome

9am – 1:45pm: TechChallenge/Workshops

1:45pm – 2pm: Closing

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Highlights from SheTech

“I think I can do this. I think I can be a scientist.”

SheTech Participant

Students Across Idaho have Attended SheTech

“My favorite part was definitely the scholarship hacks. No one has ever explained those things to me, so it was extremely useful.” 

SheTech Participant

2025 Workshops

SheTech presents a wide range of career workshops – including many you may never have heard of – to expand perspectives on all that’s possible with STEM.

See below for our 2025 workshops.

Picture Yourself in a Green Career

Woman gardening Is this your future? An important job that makes a positive difference in the world, high demand for your kind of work, a comfortable living wage, a healthy work-life balance. Explore the amazing world of “green” jobs at this interactive session. If you have a device to get online, please bring it!

STEM & Teaching careers

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a teacher? Join two STEM teachers who help students ignite a passion in a variety of STEM careers. You will have the opportunity to explore different STEM stations and challenges that model different STEM careers that start in the classroom!

Yoga and Sound Healing

Open up to your full potential through yoga and sound healing. Explore how the mind works and how relaxation through sound healing can help create original thought and innovation. Enjoy a feel good yoga class followed by super relaxing sound bath.

CRASH! BOOM! BANG! Well, now what?

Participants will be grouped together to solve a civil engineering problem. Witness and discuss possible solutions or catastrophic failures!

Colorful Chemistry

Use an unexpected vegetable to create a work of art with chemistry!

Hint: it’s not a banana 😉

Allow Me to Introduce Myself... A Micro-Movie Making Adventure

In this hands-on session we will create animated introductions to our future selves.

Chip, Chip, Hooray!

Get ready to dive into the exciting world of semiconductors! In this workshop, you’ll explore how semiconductors are made and discover their real-world applications in industries like healthcare, agriculture, and more. Through fun, hands-on activities, you’ll team up with others to build circuits using Arduinos, breadboards, LEDs, and other essential components. Along the way, you’ll learn about career pathways in semiconductors and electronics and see how these technologies shape our lives and inspire future innovations.

Code your own retro arcade game

Sophie BroderickCreate your own retro-style arcade game by programming with Microsoft MakeCode AND take your game home with you on your phone!

Build a Wind Turbine

Come build a wind turbine and learn about Idaho Power’s clean energy goals!

Biomechanics: Your Body in Motion!

Graduate students from the Boise Applied Biomechanics of Infants (BABI) Lab with discussion what biomechanics is and the tools we use in the BABI lab. The students will then participate in a Arm wrestling competition using some of the tools to measure muscle activation during the competition.

Human Tumor Pathology 101

We will look at the role of an anatomic pathologist in the care of patients with tumors. Get to see representative samples of tissue hands on and under the microscope.

Shape, Pour, Plant: Crafting Concrete Flowerpots

In this hands-on workshop, you will create your own concrete flowerpots! We will walk through construction safety measures, learn how to build concrete forms, mix basic concrete, and pour the concrete to form sturdy, unique flowerpots.

Balloon Powered Cars

In this hands-on activity, you’ll design, build and test a balloon powered car. Work with a team to learn the engineering design process, and apply Newton’s Third Law while creating and testing a balloon powered car.

Financial Literacy Workshop

Money Moves: Level Up Your Financial Game!

Empowering You Through Design Thinking

In this workshop, you’ll discover how design thinking helps UX designers solve real-world problems. Through fun activities and interactive exercises, you’ll learn how to apply design thinking to your own life. Get ready for some exciting hands-on activities and creative challenges!

STEaM in the Fire Service

Mechanics of forcing a door, medical math, and pump calculations. Along with other demos for what we do in the Fire and EMS world.

Your Voice Matters! Arm Yourself with an Innovative Mindset

We need YOU, our young women leaders, to speak up with your ideas and help solve our world’s greatest problems! In our workshop, we’re going to start from the inside and move out. You’ll learn about what makes up an innovative mindset and then you’ll get to practice what you learned so you can immediately apply your knowledge.

Bridge Building Blitz

Join Exyte for an exciting workshop where you’ll dive into the fascinating world of bridge structures and high-level engineering principles! You’ll be grouped into small teams and challenged to design and build the longest, most stable bridge possible using the materials and time provided. This hands-on experience will not only enhance your understanding of teamwork, innovation, and engineering design but also inspire you with insights from women professionals across various design disciplines.

Idaho LAUNCH!

Volunteer page headerIdaho LAUNCH is a grant program that provides seniors graduating from high school grants for post-secondary training. The grant provides 80% of tuition and fees up to $8,000.

TechZone

The TechZone is a “trade show” where students meet 20-30 STEM companies, schools and organizations throughout Idaho.

Examples of past Tech Zone attendees:

  • Biomark
  • Idaho State Police Forensic Services
  • Idaho Power
  • Idaho National Laboratory
  • Women in Aviation
  • Micron
  • Boise Aquatic Science Lab
  • Intuit

Tech Challenge

The TechChallenge is a place to ideate, solve and pitch a solution to a real-world problem with the help of STEM industry mentors. 

Past challenge topics: 

  • Finding a solution to hunger during COVID 
  • Designing a better to-go container 
  • Lighting a room with renewable energy 

Educator Workshops

SheTech is a great place for educators to bring something new back to the classroom as well.

Past workshops included:

  • Grant writing
  • Design thinking

Are you an educator and want to see a particular topic at SheTech? Email eve@women-innovators.org

All genders and identities are welcome at SheTech.