Conference Description

Expanding Your Horizons is a conference for 5^th - 8^th grade girls that is offered at HSU once every two years. The purpose of the conference is to encourage girls to take math and science in high school. At the conference, girls explore career options by attending hands-on workshops, and attending the science mall.

Adult workshops are also offered for parents and teachers. Adults may not attend the student workshops.

Over 200 volunteers from around Humboldt County help make the conference a success. If you would like to help, please contact the appropriate person on the EYH Coordinating Committee.

Conference Goals

Since the first EYH conference, held at Mills College in Oakland California in 1976, more than 700,000 5^th-12^th grade girls and more than 59,000 parents and educators have attended EYH conferences. The goals of the conference are:

• to provide young women with opportunities to meet and interact with positive women role models who are active in math and science related careers;
• to involve young women with limited opportunities for success in positive experiences in mathematics and science; to increase the interest of young women in math and science by providing exciting and fun hands-on learning experiences;
• to encourage young women to study as much math and science as possible by showing them the benefits of education and its relevance to their lives; to foster awareness of career opportunities in science and math related careers.

EYH conferences are held all over the country and are supported by the Math/Science Network.