Monalisa Ruffin’s small fingers assembled snap connectors on a circuit board to create a closed-loop circuit in hopes that once she finished the activity, she could make a siren sound off. The 11-year-old sixth-grader at Brookwood Middle School participated in five engineering activities on Saturday at the “Wow! That’s Engineering!” event hosted by the University of Alabama chapter of Society of Women Engineers, known as SWE. The annual event is designed to teach middle-school students different engineering disciplines through activities with a entertaining theme. This year’s theme was space exploration, “Across the Galax-SWE.”