MURFREESBORO — With
registration already underway, middle school and high school girls should act
early to secure their spot in the 2014 Expanding Your Horizons in Science and
Mathematics Conference at MTSU.
The 18th annual event will be held from 8 a.m. to
3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, on campus. The registration fee is $18. The deadline
to register is Sunday, Aug. 31.
To register, go to http://www.mtsu.edu/wistem/eyh/index.php
and click on “Registration.” A link for the parent or guardian release form is
included on the registration page.
Expanding Your Horizons is a hands-on math and science event
to help girls consider careers in these fields as well as engineering and
technology, said Judith Iriarte-Gross, EYH and WISTEM (Women in STEM) Center
director. She added that it gives them opportunities to talk with women in
science and attend this type of conference with other girls. STEM is an acronym
for science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
MTSU alumna Freneka Minter, a Vanderbilt University Medical
Center program coordinator in the Center for Health Services Research, will
serve as keynote speaker for the middle school and high school girls. She holds
bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the university.
Alumna Katrina Smith, a research assistant in the Vanderbilt
Center for Neuroscience Drug Discovery, will be a second keynote speaker for
the high school girls later in the day. She graduated from MTSU in December
2013.
Up to 275 middle school girls and up to 75 high school girls
are welcome to attend the event, Iriarte-Gross said.
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