{"id":229,"date":"2017-12-14T10:26:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T10:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/?p=229"},"modified":"2017-12-18T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T10:56:38","slug":"wdca-women-can-do-anything-wesbaths-visit-to-weston-village-guides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/2017\/12\/14\/wdca-women-can-do-anything-wesbaths-visit-to-weston-village-guides\/","title":{"rendered":"WDCA (Women Can Do Anything) - WESBath's visit to Weston Village Guides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One evening in early December five WESBath members visited the Weston Village Guides to tell them all about engineering.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-231\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-231 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Photo-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Photo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Photo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Photo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Photo-1.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Weston Village Guides made towers in small groups<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We chatted to a group of about 25 guides and then gave them all the task of building towers, capable of supporting a glass flask of water. As they planned, designed and then built their towers, we helped them out and explained some of the basic engineering principles behind the straw structures.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-230 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image_4-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image_4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image_4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image_4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image_4.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WESBath students supported the Guides to build a successful straw tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The winning team, the WCDA (Women Can Do Anything) team, built a great structure in record time \u2013 we loved the team name too!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image-5-resize.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-233 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image-5-resize-225x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image-5-resize-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2017\/12\/Image-5-resize.jpeg 756w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The winning tower<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>One of the girls approached us in the end and told us she wants to become an engineer to help people and that made my day!<\/p>\n<p>Leen Jabban 3rd Year MEng Integrated Mechanical &amp; Electrical Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One evening in early December five WESBath members visited the Weston Village Guides to tell them all about engineering. 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