TeachEngineering

The 2026 starts tomorrow at the University of Colorado Boulder! 🎉

This grassroots gathering will serve as a brain trust to ensure our technical future belongs to everyone: ncwit.org/summit/2026-summit

🧠 Thought-provoking workshops

🏆 Award celebrations

🎤 Galvanizing presentations

🙌🏾 Community for changemakers

Can't attend in person? Follow our YouTube channel for a livestream: youtube.com/ 😊

🆕 For students in grades 6-8: teachengineering.org/activities/view/jpl-3053-mars-thermos-design-heat-transfer

Designing a Mars Thermos 🌡️

Using the engineering design process, students design a “Mars Thermos” — with everyday materials — that keeps a small amount of water from changing more than 5°F over 10 minutes. Through this process, students explore heat transfer and basic thermodynamics while building scientific inquiry, data collection, and mathematical analysis skills.

➕ This curriculum aligns with Next Generation Science Standards!

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In this hands-on design challenge, students explore capacitance and capacitors by designing, building, and optimizing a capacitor prototype 🔋 Throughout this process, they apply the engineering design process, make predictions, and compare outcomes to their expectations.

🆕 For grades 11-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/bgsu-2919-all-charged-up-homemade-capacitor-activity

Just 2️⃣ weeks until the 2026 : ncwit.org/summit/2026-summit

This year’s event — from June 1st - 2nd — at the University of Colorado Boulder will feature:

🧠 Thought-provoking workshops

🏆 Award celebrations

🎤 Galvanizing presentations

🙌🏾 Community for changemakers

Join us to help shape our technical future: bit.ly/2026NCWITSummit

NCWIT’s power has always resided in the passionate community dedicated to broadening participation in tech. At the upcoming 2026 , meet and collaborate with changemakers from across NCWIT’s ecosystem in engaging breakout sessions 🤜🏼🤛🏼

These workshops will explore our relationship to technology, and how we can all play a role in shaping the future — both within computing education and within the broader workforce!

✅ Register to join us: bit.ly/2026NCWITSummit

📝 See the full agenda: ncwit.org/summit/2026-summit