MURFREESBORO — Registration
already is underway for the 19th annual Expanding Your Horizons in
Math in Science at MTSU, and middle school and high school girls should act
early to secure their place.
Expanding Your Horizons, or EYH, will be held from 8 a.m. to
3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 26, on campus. The registration fee is $18. The deadline
to register is Tuesday, Aug. 25, or when maximum capacity has been reached.
Scholarship assistance is available.
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. EYH gives girls opportunities to talk with women in STEM — science,
technology, engineering and math — and attend this type of conference with
other girls.
Up to 275 middle school girls and up to 75 high school girls
are welcome to attend the event.
Kathy Green, executive aide in the Department of Chemistry,
and fellow dog trainer Krista Wade of Bell Buckle, Tennessee, will be one of
two keynote presenters. Dogs will be a part of their presentation. A keynote
for the high school girls will be announced later.
Judith Iriarte-Gross, a chemistry professor and director of
the MTSU WISTEM (Women in STEM) Center and EYH, coordinates the student,
faculty and industry volunteers needed to run the event.
EYH sponsors include the American Association of University
Women (Murfreesboro branch), MTSU College of Basic and Applied Sciences, the
EYH Network, Girls Raised in Tennessee Science (GRITS) Collaborative Project,
MTSU, Nashville section of the American Chemical Society, Nissan North America,
Schneider Electric, Southern Automotive Women’s Forum, Office of the University
Provost and the MTSU Women in STEM Center.
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