{"id":313,"date":"2019-02-18T15:02:04","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/?p=313"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:02:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T15:02:16","slug":"our-visit-to-29th-st-alphege-brownies-in-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/2019\/02\/18\/our-visit-to-29th-st-alphege-brownies-in-bath\/","title":{"rendered":"Our visit to 29th St Alphege Brownies in Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday the 14th February, I joined 6 WESBath members in volunteering to share our love for engineering with the 29th St Alphege Brownies in Bath.<\/p>\n<p>We chose the steady hand activity where, in groups of 5, the brownies built a steady hand game using only batteries, an LED light, tin foil, metal wire, a matchbox, electrical wire and tape.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-activity-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-315 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-activity-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"WESBath student supporting Brownies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-activity-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-activity-1-286x215.jpg 286w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-activity-1.jpg 692w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WESBath student supporting Brownies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Everyone was so excited about creating creative shapes\u00a0but soon learnt that they had to compromise in order to complete the track in under 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-activity-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-317 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-activity-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"WESBath student supporting Brownies\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WESBath student supporting Brownies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We asked the Brownies what they learnt from the activity and they all showed an understanding of the importance of having a closed circuit for electricity to flow. We were very happy that we helped the children learn more about engineering, but what made us even happier was the thank you presents of chocolate they gave us!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_314\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-314 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"WESBath students visit 29th St Alphege Brownies \" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-1-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-1-322x215.jpg 322w, https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/02\/Brownies-1.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WESBath students visit 29th St Alphege Brownies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Leen Jabban, Final Year, MEng(Hons) Integrated Electrical &amp; Electronic Engineering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday the 14th February, I joined 6 WESBath members in volunteering to share our love for engineering with the 29th St Alphege Brownies in Bath. 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