
Clemson University’s PEER/WISE program hosted their 19th Annual Girl Scout Day this year on April 7th. The theme was “Engineers Make a World of Difference!” and involved about 75 girl scouts (in 4th to 8th grade) rotating through 4 interactive engineering sessions from civil engineering, chemical engineering, environmental engineering, and electrical engineering. Our department led a session focused on nuclear environmental engineering. This session included discussion of what radiation and radioactivity are, different sources and uses of radiation, and some of the leading women scientists and engineers in the field. The hands-on stations included:
- Cloud chambers and visualization of particle tracks
- Nuclear stability, using ping pong balls to represent protons and neutrons
- Discussion and detection of radioactivity in everyday objects
Dr. Martinez was the faculty representative, and student volunteers were Dawn Montgomery, Megan Hoover, Kathryn Peruski, Isaac Johnston, Connor Parker, Merritt Earle, and Brennan Ferguson.


