Kerrville, TX –Expanding Your Horizons – A Career Conference in science and math for sixth-, seventh- and eighth- grade girls will take place 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 15 at Schreiner University. Cost is $25.00 and includes lunch, three different labs of their choosing, all conference materials and a t-shirt. Register online for this event at www.schreiner.edu/ eyh/. Payment options are available through the online registration, and scholarships are available through the students’ schools. Registration ends at midnight Oct. 11.
Expanding Your Horizons is an exciting, funfilled day where middleschool- grade girls learn about careers in science and mathematics. Participants choose three labs to attend. In each lab, they will meet professional women and college students in STEM fields who will talk to them about their paths to their careers.
Labs offered include: DIY Galaxy Slime – make your own Galaxy Slime and learn all about the Milky Way; Escape Room – use chemistry to solve puzzles and escape; Egg Drop – design the safest place for your egg; Elephant Toothpaste/ Gummy Bear – explore all the things that explode and maybe some chemistry too; Frog Dissection – see what’s inside and how it works and find out how each organ plays a part; Ghost Structures/Mine Sweeper – build the best catapult and reach the farthest; Crime Scene Investigation – discover the clues in a crime scene and determine who did it; DNA Structures – build your own strand of DNA while learning all about it; Ocean Waves/ Edible Geodes – make your own waves in a jar while learning about the big blue sea; Bath Bomb – make a spooky bath bomb from scratch.
Over 300 6th, 7th and 8th grade girls are expected to attend from schools in Kerrville, Center Point, Comfort, Junction, Ingram, Harper, Bandara, Boerne and Fredericksburg.
“Expanding Your Horizons has operated every year on the Schreiner campus since 1992, except for one year during COVID,” said Dr. Diana Comuzzie, developer of the Health Professions Program at Schreiner University. “We have girls who came to Expanding Your Horizons when they were in middle school now bring their daughters. It is a powerful experience of discovery and fun. We want to show girls a pathway to success in the STEM fields.”
Expanding Your Horizons is sponsored by Schreiner University, the American Association of University Women, Welch Grant and Bandera County River Authority and Groundwater District.
For more information, please email ExpandingYourHorizon@ schreiner. edu.
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