As 12 teenage girls used their engineering skills to build towers out of spaghetti noodles and marshmallows for part of their summer camp, they proved that science and mathematics are not just for boys.

The girls, who all are either soon-to-be high school freshman or eighth graders, were part of a free, three-day Expanding Your Horizons camp geared toward introducing young women to a variety of career and college opportunities.

Female students from across Klamath County participated in the program, which ran Monday through Wednesday at Oregon Institute of Technology. Expanding Your Horizons Network, a national organization that encourages girls to explore careers in science and mathematics, funded the program.

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