Now in it’s third year, the Expanding Your Horizons™ (EYH™) in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) conference is enjoying a dramatic increase in corporate sponsorship.

Area businesses are showing their support for EYH™ by sending employees to lead the workshops, making in-kind donations and sending checks. IBM, Entergy, Estee Lauder and River Deep all have employees who will be giving up their Saturday morning on March 11 to spend time with 150 7th grade girls and their parents and teachers. All workshop leaders bring their own supplies for the workshop and resource room, where information about STEM careers, at-home activities and organizations will be available.

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‘Expanding Your Horizons’ conference shows young girls how they can turn math and science skills into a profession

WHAT: “Expanding Your Horizons” is a math and science career conference founded and managed by professional women to introduce middle school girls to new and non-traditional skills and careers in fields that utilize mathematics, science, engineering and technology. About 300 San Francisco middle school girls will try out practical hands-on uses for math and science skills including applying algebra to computer animation, building a rocket launch pad and solving mathematical puzzles through topography.

The program is sponsored by the SF State colleges of Science & Engineering and Education as well as corporate and public entities including Autodesk, the Miranda Lux Foundation, California Mathematics Council, San Francisco Unified School District, Houghton Mifflin and San Francisco Mathematics Teachers Association.

WHO: In addition to biologists, geologists, mathematicians and engineers from SF State, the girls will meet and work with female veterinary, zoo and wildlife professionals from the Marine Mammal Center and the San Francisco and Oakland zoos; physicians and researchers from Kaiser Permanente and the University of California Medical Center; an astrochemist from NASA Ames Research Center, electricians, a forensic examiner, and fire inspector.

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(AUSTIN) – Who needs to watch Saturday morning cartoons when you can catch a glimpse of the future? Girlstart is pleased to announce that on Saturday, March 25th, an army of bright young girls, 300 strong, will have the life-altering opportunity to get a taste of what their life could be like as a pilot, a veterinarian, a rocket scientist and more at Girlstart’s inaugural Expanding Your Horizons Conference.

This one-day, action-packed adventure is designed to leave girls eager to take on the world, after spending an empowering day discovering the potential of careers in math, science, engineering and technology. Expanding Your Horizons is a national event that has been offered in Austin for 11 years. 2006 marks the first year that Girlstart is hosting the event, taking the fun to a whole new level! Together with a host of accomplished scientists, mathematicians, doctors and other professionals, Girlstart will give Austin girls a day like no other. Expanding Your Horizons will be a high-energy, hands-on introduction to robotics, tsunami simulation, filmmaking, website production, geology, bones and brains, creating slime and more!

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SPRINGFIELD – “Expanding Your Horizons in Math, Science, and Technology” — a hands-on conference designed specially for girls in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades — will be held from 8:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Saturday, March 18, in the Public Affairs Center at the University of Illinois at Springfield. The conference is presented by the American Association of University Women, Springfield Branch, and is sponsored by UIS and The Children’s Center, Memorial Health System.

Many cutting-edge careers of the future will involve science, math, and technology and will be wide open to young women who are well-prepared. Participants at this conference will choose three sessions from more than 25 interactive workshops on topics ranging from webpage design to engineering, veterinary medicine, speech pathology, firefighting, television production, entomology, and forensic science. Each workshop will be led by a successful professional who will share information on what her job involves, how she became interested in the field, and what education and skills are required.

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LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 5, 2004 — An estimated 150 teenage girls from around Northern and Central New Mexico will discover the wonderment of math and science as participants in the national Expanding Your Horizons program Thursday, March 11, at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Church Parish Hall in Los Alamos.

The program is cosponsored by Los Alamos National Laboratory and is designed for young women in grades eight through 10 from throughout Northern New Mexico.

Each attendee will participate in two “hands-on” workshops conducted by women scientists. An estimated 150 teenage girls will participate in the conference, which includes up to 15 “hands-on” workshops on a variety of subjects. Each attendee will participate in two workshops conducted by local women scientists, exploring topics such as robotics, fractals, polymers, chemistry, radioactivity spectroscopy and cryptology , said Georgia Pedicini of Los Alamos’ High Performance Computing Systems Group. Lunch is provided for the participants.

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