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Members of the Society of Women Engineers helped Girl Scout Troop 160 in Phillipsburg, N.J., construct a display from empty cookie boxes last semester.
Entitled “Splish Splash I Was Takin’ a Bath,” the display is a larger-than-life bathtub, complete with bubbles and a bather. It will be assembled 9 p.m. tomorrow and displayed at the Palmer Park Mall this weekend, according to SWE adviser Polly Piergiovanni, associate professor of chemical engineering.
The troop will sell Girl Scout cookies and take orders for its February sale in front of the display 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday.
This is the second year that local Girl Scouts have participated in Cookie Box Creations. The goal is for Scouts to think about nontraditional career fields for women such as engineering and architecture.
An article about the project in Monday’s Express-Times of Easton noted that chemical engineering major Jessica Brody ’04 (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), vice president of SWE, “enjoyed watching the troop members have fun while they were learning. She especially liked getting them interested in science and engineering. ‘I want them to learn it’s okay to follow their dreams and their interests, no matter what they are,’ she says. ‘I want them to see what their options are in life.’
“Kim Guillet, 17, a junior at Warren County Vocational-Technical School, says she learned two important lessons while working on the project. ‘I learned that as a team we could make things we didn’t think we’d be able to make,’ she says. ‘And I learned that college people are not boring, like I thought they were, but they’re fun.’”