Expanding Your Horizons is a one-day conference for Jr. High and High School girls and their parents. It's purpose is to interest young women in careers in math and science by giving them an opportunity to meet with women professionals.
EYH is sponsored by Utah State University, the Utah Math/Science Network, and the College of Science at USU.
For Questions about EYH, contact Susan Morgan.
For Comments about this webpage contact Laura Swift.
Expanding Your Horizons Conference Goals
In 1976, the Math/Science Network Created Expanding your Horizones in Science and MathematicsTM (EYH) Conferences as an intervention strategy, designed to nurture girls' interest in mathematics and science courses and to encourage them to expand their career visions to include science and mathematics based careers. Since the first conference was held at Mills College in Oakland, CA in 1976, more than 350,000 sixth through twelfth-grade young women and approzimately 47,000 parents and educators have attended EYH Conferences. In the 1994-1995 year there were 136 individual conferences held in 32 states, reaching approximately 43,500 student. Our goals remain, as they were in 1976, to:
- Increase the interest of young women in mathematics and science through positive, hands-on experiences.
- Foster awareness of career opportunities in math and science related careers.
- Provide young women with opportunities tomeet and interact with positive role models who are active in math and science related careers.
- Invlolve young women with limited opportunities for success in positive experiences in mathematics and science.