More than 40 Girl Scouts came to Clemson University to get the skinny on engineering and kicked off Clemson's week-long National Engineer's Week observance. "Introduce a Girl to Engineering and Science Day" is sponsored by Clemson's Women in Science and Engineering (WISE), Clemson's nationally recognized Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films (CAEFF) and Girl Scouts of the Old 96 Council.

The day's itinerary included using cookie boxes and cookies to build two-foot railroad-style truss bridges, engineering "Jell-O biomaterials tissue" to patch a plaster arm, and learning the secrets of mass-engineering the perfect Girl Scout cookie. Girls also practiced sutures on a skeleton, experimented with smart robots and had the opportunity for informal talks with female students from the College of Engineering and Science.
"We hope the girls who visit Clemson will come to see themselves as the engineers and scientists who will build America's future," said Aretta Jenkins, the CAEFF outreach coordinator.