Expanding Your Horizons in Science and Mathematics (EYH) is a program that started in California in 1976. See the Internet site: http://www.expandingyourhorizons.org/
EYH is a one-day, six-hour conference. For our EYH, we invite young women in grades 6-9.
When girls begin Jr. High School they tend to lose interest in and drop out of science and math. Percentage-wise, compared to boys, each year as they get older young women take fewer math and science courses and score lower in tests. This conference is an effort to help young women maintain or become more interested in science and math. The conference provides opportunities for young women to meet and learn about careers from women working in science and math related fields and how these subjects relate to possible careers.
Statistics show both young men and young women tend to learn better in a same-gender environment. The conference provides a "girl only" atmosphere, so the presenters and assistants must be women. We also encourage the workshops to be "hands-on." Each session will be limited to approximately 20 (or less) young women.
Please contact Kay to coordinate, at 435/863-3085. — Volunteer Contact Information (34kb)
The form is a way of gathering initial information about you. The "Your Printed Name" field will be used for printing nametags and any other printed information — if we decide to use your name on a brochure or such. The rest of the personal information is for the EYH committee's use only. It will only be used for us to contact you or provide a way of a helper to contact you. The first section is your personal information. This will give us multiple ways to contact you. It also gives us a better feeling of who you are. An address gives us a way to logistically connect you with other volunteers. Write the work description for a 12-year-old young woman. The next few questions let me know where you belong in the organization.
Please do. Too much time and energy is spent trying to get contact information. If we have your contact information up front — things will go much smoother in the background. As stated above, the contact information gives us a better feeling of who you are and multiple ways to contact you.
NO — BUT! We do need legitimate contact information for you. If you'd rather give a work address and phone — that is ok. A good e-mail address is most important.
It is recommended that the young women attend without their teachers or parents — with the thought that they may feel less restricted. However if you would like to observe workshops throughout the day you may. Just complete a registration form like the young women do.
Parents are invited and encouraged to attend a free panel discussion entitled "Higher Ed 101." Representatives from local colleges and universities will be on hand to discuss what your daughter can be doing now to meet entrance requirements and be competitive when it comes time to apply for scholarships. Don't miss it!
To observe, get a t-shirt and have lunch, you will need to pay the registration fee.
One hour.
Almost every young woman would like more of everything (more workshops and longer times)! 8:30 to 2:00 is a long enough day and we would like the girls to have a fun experience and, at the same time, be able to experience as many different things as possible. If the workshops were longer we would have to either make the conference longer or only do 2 sessions. For good or for bad, we have made the decision to have 3 workshops — 1 hour long each, with lunch and a keynote.
Registration fee is $16.
What the young women get in return for the registration fee:
Grades 6-9 — Most young women will be 11 - 15 yrs old.
Farmington Utah and North. A total of 155 schools. (147 Public Schools = 35 Jr High/Inter/Middle, 112 Elementary)
Absolutely.
If their school is on our list of schools we say we will send information to — have them ask a 6th grade school teacher, Jr / Middle school Math or Science teacher, their school counselor and/or the front office staff. If these people do not have the information, and they should — then somehow the chain of distribution was broken, we are sorry — that school and you will have to get information from the Internet. We are limited on how we can present information and invitations to individual schools. We are requested to go through the Districts and not straight to the schools.
If their school is not on our list or does not have the information, tell the individual to get the information and a registration from our Internet site:
If the individual does not have Internet access, have them ask their school to find the information on the Internet or the individual can go to a neighbor or a friend that does have access, or they can go to a public library. All of our public libraries have Internet access and can help them find the address and information. Most schools also have Internet access.
Workshop requests are placed on a first-received, first-placed basis.
After a workshop is FULL — if more young women request that workshop, they will be placed in other workshops t hat are not full. There is no guarantee to a young woman to be placed in the workshop they request.
The registration form asks the girls to write her top six choices of workshops she would like to attend. She is asked to put them in the order of the priority she would like to attend, in case some or all of the top three choices are full. If all six choices are full, we will do our best to place her in a similar or close to the same subject of a workshop she requested, but no guarantees. Can a girl request what order she attends which workshop?
I guess she could, but even less guarantees on this one. The form does not allow for this type of request.
Each young woman who registers will receive a confirmation in the mail listing the workshops she was placed in. While every effort is made to place the young women in the workshops of their choice, once requested workshops are full they are placed in available workshops.
No guarantees. Very little effort can be given to try to keep friends together. If a group of registration forms are received together asking for the same workshops — there is a chance they will get the same sessions — but NO GUARANTEE. If the friends are not in the same workshop sessions, they still can sit together during lunch and during the keynote speaker — no seating restrictions are in place during these parts of the event.
Due to registration issues, walk-ups on Saturday (the day of the event) will not be accepted.
