Julie Grove vividly remembers the day she discovered the field that would become her career.

As a high-school student in the mid 1980s, she spent a day at the University of Wisconsin-Madison as part of Expanding Your Horizons (EYH), a daylong conference designed to expose young women to careers in science, technology, engineering and math.

While touring a chemical engineering lab on campus, she was wowed by the students at work on a multistory distillation column and decided she wanted to become one of them.

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The combination of Dr. Leslie Wisner-Lynch as keynote speaker, the support of Smyrna-based Schneider Electric and the first-time presence of the Jennings A. Jones College of Business will make the 13th annual Expanding Your Horizons in Math and Science even more special for girls and young women attending.

Wisner-Lynch will be the keynote speaker for EYH, which will be held from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 31, across the MTSU campus. EYH is for girls in grades five through eight with up to 300 participating, and GRITS EYH will see up to 60 high-school girls in grades nine through12 participate.

Wisner-Lynch is a founding member and serves as executive director for BioTN Foundation Inc., a nonprofit foundation whose mission is to advance science and technology in Tennessee through the collaboration of industry, PK12 education and higher ed.

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Every year, MSUM participates with NDSU in the Expanding Your Horizons Conference for 7th-9th grade girls. This year’s conference is on Saturday, April 10th, 2010, and we are looking for volunteers to present workshops for this wonderful cause! Would you be willing to donate your time to provide workshop participants with an interactive, hands-on look at a career in your field? Even if your career doesn’t directly involve math and science, you probably needed those courses to pursue your own career path.

Think about what you do in your classroom. Is there an activity you could modify into a hands-on session that could be done by a group of very enthusiastic 7th-9th grade girls? Please consider volunteering, if even for only a few hours, for this conference. There are both morning and afternoon sessions, but you do not need to volunteer for the entire day. Over 600 girls are expected to attend, and we need your support so we don’t have to turn anyone away.

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From The Tribune-Star
August 25, 2009 10:24 pm

Girls in sixth through eighth grades are invited to explore science, technology, engineering and math during the Expanding Your Horizons career conference at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College on Sept. 19. Registration is available online at eyh.smwc.edu. Registration deadline is Sept. 12.

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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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On Saturday, February 28, the Center for Energy Research conducted three sessions of hands-on science education activities for middle and high school girls as part of the 2009 Expanding Your Horizons event, hosted by the University of San Diego. Expanding Your Horizons is a national program that hosts dozens of weekend workshops across the country to encourage middle and high school girls to consider math and science careers (www.expandingyourhorizons.org).
The San Diego events are coordinated by the San Diego Science Alliance (www.sdsa.org/pub/eyh_docs/eyh/home.html), and for the past three years, have been hosted by the University of San Diego in the Shiley Center for Science and Technology on the USD campus www.sandiego.edu.

The CER presentations, entitled “The Hottest Stuff on Earth: Plasma Science and Fusion Energy”, introduced 36 girls and 12 college student mentors to the physics of the fourth state of matter and fusion energy research. The students used Tesla coils, plasma balls, Jacob’s ladders, and other plasma discharge devices to create plasmas, and studied their behavior in magnetic fields and their emission of light. The workshop also discussed many applications of plasmas, including fusion energy research at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility (http://fusion.gat.com/global/DIII-D).

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