2010-2011 Season Accomplishments:
July 13- The Girls of Steel met with Disney Research representatives to help with a potential film!
June 24- The Girls of Steel met with iRobot founder and current CEO of Cyphy, Helen Griener.
June 16- Three representatives of the GoS visited to New York to be interviewed for the ABC news program "Tech This Out".
May 20- The Girls of Steel visited to Google headquarters. This is an exciting opportunity to meet Mark Tomczak, author of "The F Word" keynote speech at the Pittsburgh FIRST Regional and many other cool Google engineers who are leading the company to new heights.
April 27-30 - St. Louis FIRST Championship
April 20- A connection was made between NASA astronaut Cady Coleman, an inspirational female in the STEM career field, and the Girls of Steel. Dr. Coleman is currently on the international space station. She and NASA have agreed to hold a private video conference (no press) with us at CMU; she answered questions and gave us a brief tour, depending on NASA's schedule.
April 16-17- Presentation of Crush and Squirt at our local science museum, The Carnegie Science Center.
March 24-26, 2011 - Washington DC FIRST Regional
March 10-12, 2011 - Pittsburgh FIRST Regional
February 22, 2011 - Crush was successfully built, programmed, tested, and bagged&tagged in time for the deadline. Congratulations to the Girls of Steel for such a great rookie build season.
January 27, 2011 - Ellis Science Forum Demonstration
