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Volunteer Opportunities
March 16: Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair
April 2, 2005: Expanding Your Horizons
Greater San Diego Science
and Engineering Fair
This year, AWIS will be presenting six awards at the San Diego Science
Fair. We will present four junior division awards and two senior division
awards. AWIS members will be judging a wide variety of girls’ projects to
determine who will receive the AWIS awards. This is an opportunity to
interact with some really neat young scientific ladies. One of last year’s
junior division AWIS award recipients, Shannon McClintock, took her award
winning project, "The Little Engine that Could: Enhancing Traction Through
Friction," to the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge and WON this
nation wide competition. She was named "American’s Top Young Scientist of
the Year." If you are interested in judging the science fair competition
this year, please contact the outreach committee at
outreach_awissd@yahoo.com
by March 1st. The judging will take place on Wednesday, March 16 and will be
a half-day time commitment.
Expanding Your Horizons
(EYH) Conference
Planning for San Diego's third annual Expanding Your Horizons (EYH)
Conference at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) on Saturday,
April 2, 2005 is well underway. The conference is aimed at girls in grades
6-10 and is intended to encourage them to pursue science, math or
engineering. AWIS-SD has led hands-on workshops at this conference in the
past two years and we are looking for volunteers to lead workshops again in
2005. Jodi Connolly, an AWIS member and former Outreach Committee Chair is
co-Chairing the EYH Program Committee and would love to hear from you if you
have an idea for a workshop or would like to volunteer to help on the day.
Contact Jodi at
jodiawissd@yahoo.com
BE WiSE
is an organization designed to encourage young women to pursue careers in
science and engineering through various events. For seventh and eighth grade
there are overnight events at various locations in town, such as Birch
Aquarium and Sea World. For BE WiSE alumni who are in high school there are
two Saturday events where women who are in the scientific and engineering
fields are there to talk about science and encourage the young women to
consider a career in the scientific and engineering fields.
For futher information about this program please see
http://www.sdsa.org/BEWiSE/index.html.
Updated 2/08/05
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