STEM Event Denver

DENVER, CO - May 06: Team Avenger Isabella Riedel, left, Marilu Hernandez, center, and Kayla Burby work on a design challenge to build a Orion Spacecraft splashdown recovery system at the Society of Women Engineers' Girls Exploring Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) event at the Colorado Convention Center May 06, 2016. Over a thousand middle school girls participated in the annual event getting hands-on science and math experience. Team Avenger competed with four other teams to build an Orion recovery system crafted with household materials, plastic bags, popsicle sticks, aluminum foil and tape in 20 minutes and then test their craft in water by adding weights to test their design. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)