Posts tagged ‘Expanding Your Horizons’
Just for Girls!
Girlstart’s Girls In STEM Conference, part of the Expanding Your Horizons national network, is a one-day conference created especially for girls in the 4th through 8th grades. Girls attend three unique hands-on workshops and they can even register to attend with their friends!
Read what these past Girls In STEM participants have to say about their experiences…

That we don’t just sit in class and learn, Girls In STEM actually lets us have fun while learning educational and cool stuff.
Register your daughter TODAY for a fun-filled day of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)!
Rob Cunningham Rocks!
A special thanks to Fox-7’s Rob Cunningham amazing work on Girlstart’s 2010 Expanding Your Horizons PSA!
Click on the above image and watch the video!
1 Day left to Register for Girls Conference
Expanding Your Horizons registration closes tomorrow, Wednesday, evening at 11:59pm.
Click Image to Watch Katelyn on We Are Austin
Girls attend three unique hands-on workshops led by professional women who are excited about sharing their science, technology, engineering and math careers with EYH participants!
Featuring Elizabeth Avellán as the Keynote Speaker
Elizabeth Avellán is a film producer, co-owner and vice president of Troublemaker Studios, whose film credits include, “Spy Kids” the series and “Shark Boy and Lava Girl.”
Ada Lovelace Day
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.
Ada Lovelace was one of the world’s first computer programmers, and one of the first people to see computers as more than just a machine for doing sums. She wrote programs for Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a general-purpose computing machine, despite the fact that it was never built. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software.
To learn more about Ada Lovelace click here or Wikipedia!
Register your daughter TODAY for Expanding Your Horizons to give her the opportunity to learn from successful female science and technology professionals!
Elizabeth Avellán at Expanding Your Horizons
Want to know how Emily Osment used her pigtails as propellers to fly on Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams? Come learn about the technology behind your favorite movies from the award-winning producer of the Spy Kids movies, Elizabeth Avellán! Avellán attended Rice University and later moved to Austin to continue her studies in film and art. She also produced the popular family films, The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D and Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock. Avellán is eager to join in the EYH workshop series and teach girls about the technology behind the film industry.
Registration is now open for Girlstart’s Expanding Your Horizons Girls Conference!
50 Years of Expanding Your Horizons
In 1959 girls visited one on one with scientists at the University of Wisconsin- Madison about their careers. 50 years later, science mentoring and workshops are still going strong! This group formed the first Expanding Your Horizons (EYH), a national organization that brings girls and females in STEM together to learn about careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Join Girlstart next April as a mentor and lead a fun, interactive workshop for girls at EYH Austin. Fill out the application here. Help keep EYH going strong!
Check out the full article about EYH here.
~Julie