In the early 1990s, Cara Wall Scheffler attended an Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference as a middle school student in Seattle. She met talented scientists, got a taste of electrical engineering by making extension cords, and saw that a career in science was a definite option.

Now, Wall Scheffler, a postdoctoral research associate in zoology at UW-Madison, will be returning to EYH, only this time as a presenter. She’s one participant in a daylong ‘Horizons’ workshop on Saturday, Nov. 5 at Union South on the UW-Madison campus. More than 65 women will present this year from various fields including biology, engineering, health and medicine, mathematics and physical sciences.

“It was an amazing experience,” Wall Scheffler says of Horizons. “We saw women who were incredibly talented at what they did, but also balanced husbands, children and lives outside of science. That was inspiring.”

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