Celebrating Engineers Week 2026!

✨👑 Transforming Your Future This Engineers Week! 🚀🏰⚡🔐🧪
Engineers Week is all about shining a light on how engineers make the world safer, stronger, and more innovative — and inspiring the next generation to see themselves in these powerful careers.
This week, we introduced our community to five incredible engineering paths: Aerospace (sending rockets and satellites into space 🌎🚀), Civil (building strong castles, bridges, and roads 🏰), Cybersecurity (protecting the kingdom’s digital gates 🔐), Electrical (powering and lighting up our world ⚡), and Chemical (creating life-changing solutions through science 🧪).
Through real-life role models, hands-on activities, and our princess-inspired coloring pages, we showed our STEM Princesses that engineering is creative, impactful, and for them. Scroll down to see highlights from our E-Week features!
Because an engineer is a princess who can build her own castle — and design her own happily ever after. 👑✨

Aerospace Engineering

Our founder, Dr. Kelsey Kirrene, works as a payload systems engineer in the space industry!

So what does that mean?
It means she helps build and take care of the very important “stuff” that rides on rockets and satellites. Think of it like this: when a rocket blasts off, it’s like a super fast flying school bus going to space… and the payload is the precious cargo inside! Aerospace and systems engineers help make sure it’s safe, works properly, and can do its job once it gets to space. They might even help make sure it follows the right directions to get to the right spot in space!

Fun Fact: When Kelsey was little, she wanted to be the first ballerina on Mars!
In our coloring page, we imagine the Aerospace Engineer as a Flying Carpet Designer — because designing something that soars through the sky (or space!) is basically real-life magic powered by science.

Civil Engineering

Meet the Civil Engineer: the real-life Castle Builder!

A civil engineer is someone who designs and builds the big things we use every day — like roads, bridges, schools… and yes, even castles!

She’s the princess who makes sure your castle doesn’t wobble, your bridge doesn’t wiggle, and your tower stands tall and strong. She figures out what materials to use, how to make the ground steady, and how to build things that keep people safe.
Our Build a Castle activity is the perfect hands-on way for your little engineer to test, design, and imagine like a true castle builder, and it pairs beautifully with our STEM fairy tale, Princess Elsie Builds a Castle & Discovers the Magic of Engineering.
Ready to build your own happily ever after?

Grab the book here: https://amzn.to/3WJI0O1 (affiliate link) and try building your very own castle!

Cyber Engineering

Meet the Cybersecurity Engineer: our Castle Defender!

Every castle needs strong walls… but it also needs someone protecting the secret doors, treasure rooms, and magical scrolls inside. That’s where a Cybersecurity Engineer comes in!
She’s the princess who makes sure no sneaky dragons or tricky trolls can break into the castle’s computers. She builds invisible shields that keep important information safe.

Our Cyber Queen (and amazing webmaster!), Andrea Lawrence, doesn’t just find problems. She designs powerful systems that make security automatic, like building magic rules into the castle so the doors lock themselves and guards ALWAYS show up right on time.

In the real world, she focuses on secure DevOps and application security automation, which means she helps build safety directly into the tools engineers - and you! - use every day.
Grab our Cybersecurity Engineer coloring page, the Castle Defender, and remind your little one that protecting the kingdom is engineering, too.
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Because an engineer is a princess who can build her own castle, and she can defend it too.

Electrical Engineering

Meet the Electrical Engineer: our Lighting Wizard Princess!

Every castle needs light to sparkle, glow, and shine. That’s where an Electrical Engineer comes in! She’s the princess who helps the lights turn on, makes the music play, and gives power to all the magical gadgets in the kingdom. When something needs energy to work, she knows exactly how to make it happen!

Electrical engineers design the systems that safely move electricity from one place to another — from tiny circuits inside toys to giant power grids that light up whole cities. Our Lighting Wizard Princess coloring page celebrates this bright career, and pairs perfectly with our hands-on magic wand activities!
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Try the “easy” Static Electricity Magic Wand — where little engineers explore the tiny sparks you can’t see but can definitely feel.
Or level up with our “harder” LED Magic Wand — where they build a real glowing wand and learn how circuits make light shine!

Chemical Engineering

Meet the Chemical Engineer — our Potion Master Princess!

Every castle needs someone who understands mixtures, magic formulas, and how to turn one thing into something even better. That’s where a Chemical Engineer comes in! She’s the princess who mixes safe potions that help people feel better, creates sparkly new materials, and figures out how ingredients work together!

We’re proud to feature our real life ChemE Queen and board member, Rebecca Hawkins! She has a degree in chemical engineer and works as an independent engineering consultant who focuses on life sciences. She’s known as the “pink Swiss Army knife” of engineering, because no matter the challenge, she’s a master problem solver. Chemical engineers don’t just mix things. They design processes that help create medicines, clean water, safe materials, and life-changing innovations. They ask: How can we make this better? Safer? More helpful for people?
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Our Chemical Engineering Princess coloring page features a Princess Potion Master and celebrates the magic of chemistry, showcasing that for every little girl curiosity is her superpower.