Gallery > Women's Day 2009 (12)
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Check-in
Event check-in, held at the top of the stairs to the MTCC ballroom.
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Welcome in the MTCC ballroom
Guests and their parents enjoyed a complimentary continental breakfast in the ballroom while staff gave a welcome and event overview.
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Manley Career Academy High School
Regina Abesamis, high school counselor at Manley Career Academy High School, poses with a group of 10th- and 11th-grade women from Manley.
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Airplanes and Structures
Going the Distance with Airplanes and the Basics of "Sweet" Sound Structures were both held in the MTCC. Here, the Airplanes session can be seen on the MTCC bridge, overlooking the Structures session held in Center Court down below.
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Structures
The Basics of "Sweet" Sound Structures session illustrated the importance of a sound structure using straws, marshmallows, and other "sweet" things from around the house.
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Structures 2
Two young women build structures with marshmallows, straws and toothpicks.
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Physics & The Optical World We Live In
Julia (Physics, Class of 2012) leads a physics session with experiments involving optical devices, how they really work, and how they affect our daily lives.
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Physics & The Optical World We Live In 2
Julia helps a couple of young women set up their optical experiment.
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Going the Distance with Airplanes
Led by students from the Society of Women Engineers (SWE), guests designed and tested their own airplanes using plastic straws and packing tape.
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Computation in Everyday Life
A mother and daughter participate in the Department of Computer Science's Senior Lecturer Matt Bauer's session on how we already use advanced ways of computation thinking every day without realizing it.
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The Marketing of Designing New Products
Suzanne Mueller, Senior Lecturer in Marketing of IIT's Stuart School of Business, leads a session on the two key aspects of a marketer's job: product development and positioning.
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Student Panel
Current students lead a panel discussion about their experiences at IIT, in and out of the classroom.