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Girls for STEM

Girls for STEM

Girls for STEM 2023 Conference
(formerly Explore Your Opportunities)

Saturday, March 4, 2023
8:30 am—12:00 pm
College of Mount Saint Vincent

 

Girls for STEM Workshops  10:30 am—12 noon

  1. Brain Games. Put on your thinking cap and learn to make a model brain cell while learning about all the mind-boggling things a brain can do from recognizing words and colors, to making memories, to controlling your movements. Jenny Libien, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Pathology, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
  2. Introduction to Creative Coding with PSIS. Students will get first-hand experience of just how much fun coding is! They will create a film poster using code. Bolor Amgalan, MFA, MA, Adjunct Faculty at Parson School of Design.
  3. Survive the Zombie Apocalyse. Learn to stop zombie disease from spreading. Whitney Bagge, PhD, MPH, Disease Ecologist, Ecohealth Alliance
  4. Let’s take a Cell-fie Students will never look at the vegetable on their plate the same after this workshop. Vegetables and the plants they come from are composed of cells.  These cells determine how the plant looks, feels, and tastes.  In this workshop, we’ll ask what do the cells look like? Adrienne Roeder, PhD Biology, University of California, San Diego.  Kate Harline, PhD Candidate, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
  5. The Ethics of AI through the Colors in Art. Artificial Intelligence through music and art with the goal of cultivating Racial Equity in the Field of AI. We will explore the field of AI from its basics and create neural art and music. Anika Puri, Student Researcher, Horace Greeley High School, Founder of MoArt
  6. Slide-ing into Cells. If you sign up for this workshop, we will send you a lab kit with one foldable microscope and several slides of model organisms to observe. During the workshop, students will learn how to draw scientifically. There will also be an optional pre-session for reviewing how to assemble microscopes. Aliya Fisher, Nicolas Kim, Stephen Ogunbiyi: Student Coordinators for Sparking Teen Research Interest for Diversity and Equity in Science (STRIDES), Bronx High School of Science
  7. Navigating COVID 19 in NYC. Students will use tableau to monitor and make their own predictions on Covid 19 data trends. Students will learn how to use data to better understand the impact of the pandemic across different socio-economic groups, age, and race. Elise Kohl, MBA, New York University, Stern School of Business-Grant.  Kushi Shah, MA, in Development Psychology, Director of Data Solutions, Innovative Management Solutions, NY

                                                                Lab Workshops

Lifting the Chemical Fingerprint                                           Blizzard in a Bottle!

  

   

 

 

Explore Your Opportunities: The Sky’s the Limit!TM

Explore Your Opportunities: The Sky’s the Limit!TM

17th Year Conference to explore opportunities with hands-on workshops in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) for 7th grade girls in New York City and Westchester County
Date:  March 14, 2020
Place:  College of Mount Saint Vincent Riverdale (Bronx), New York

Empire State NYC Branch Leadership and AAUW NYC Fellows Meetings

Empire State NYC Branch Leadership and AAUW NYC Fellows Meeting
at Goldman Sachs in NYC, Tuesday, December 10, 2019
AAUW Partnership with Goldman Sachs & EYO STEM program

 

AAUW Empire State NYC Leadership: 
Estelle Kone, Emmelina De Feo, Maria Ellis, Jessica Sims; C.S. Rani

Empire State NYC Branch Leadership and AAUW NYC Fellows Meeting at Google in NYC, Tuesday, November 12, 2019
AAUW Partnership with Google & EYO STEM Program

AAUW NYC Fellows:  Valerie Streit, Jessica Sims; Estelle Kone,
Danielle Guindo, Read Alliance; Whitney Oriana; Emmelina De Feo,
Maria Ellis, Empire State NYC Branch President, EYO Co-Director,
Lorrin Johnson, EYO Co-Director; Dr. Rani, Empire State NYC Branch Treasurer

EYO Conference 2015

EYO BalloonExplore Your Opportunities:
The Sky’s the Limit!TM
13th Year Conference, April 16, 2016
College of Mount Saint Vincent, Riverdale (Bronx), New York

 

Congratulations to Lorrin Johnson, Wilma Gitchel and Marilee Scheuneman for another successful Explore Your Opportunities: the Sky’s the Limit Conference held on March 21, 2015 at the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale, New York. We  have received great reviews from our 7th grade participants about all the 17 workshops given at this Conference.  . Our key note speaker, the Australian GPS girl, Karen Jabosen received the most accolades from our students. We were all very engaged and enjoyed Karen’s  “Recalculate” motivational talk!

The 7-Grade girls attended the following17 workshops for EYO 2015:

  1. Playing Games in Alice World”: earn to create interactive games using “Alice” programming.
  2. Brain Games: Learn about some of the mind boggling things a brain can do from making memories to controlling emotions.
  3. Flower Hour: Observe and describe flowers and discover similarities that group them and differences that make them unique.
  4. It’s a Sugar…It’s a Base…It’s DNA! : Discover the structure of DNA and learn how to isolate DNA from your own cells painlessly.
  5. Acoustics & Wildlife – Sound Can Save Animals!: How do scientists track whales, recognize birds, and count tigers and frogs? They use sound!
  6. What Color is a Rose?: Roses are red, violets are blue, ever wonder how plants get their color? See which plant pigments are hiding in your favorite plants using paper chromatography!
  7. Datalogging-A-Bot: Learn how to program a robot to analyze sounds using a sound sensor.
  8. Plant Superhighways: An introduction to the vascular system of plants with real-life applications in the food and florist industries.
  9. Grrrrrrls Leading the Way in Animal Science: Learn how you can enhance animal lives and wellbeing in a hands-on enrichment workshop.
  10. Blizzard in a Bottle!: Create a “snowflake crystal” scene in a jar using Chemistry!
  11. Cool Web Design: Learn the basics of HTML and JavaScript by making your own “Web Page”.
  12. Paper Engineering + Origami = (Fun): Use paper and geometry to build a spherical container to store jewelry and other small items.
  13. Play Doctor: Learn the physical exam components and tools that doctors and PAs use to evaluate sick patients.
  14. Hands-On Cosmetic Chemistry (2 sessions): Step into the laboratory and design your own cosmetic potion.
  15. Wading Through The Web: Smarter searching on the Internet – DeeperWeb, Clusty, Carrot, website reliability checks. Oh My.
  16. Brain on Overload?: Learn about the neuroscience of cognition while conducting tests on the effects of multitasking.
  17. Using Leverage to get Super Powers: Learn basics about how levers can multiply force and how leverage is used in everyday items.

 

Programming a Robot     kitchen

EYO Conference 2015

EYO BalloonExplore Your Opportunities – The Sky’s the Limit!
12th Year Conference
March 21, 2015
College of Mount Saint Vincent
Riverdale (Bronx), New York

The meetings will be held in Founder’s Hall at CMSV in Mastronardi Room B
Friday, 9/5/14, 1:30–3:30 pm (Benedict’s Hall)
Saturday, 10/11/14, 9:30–11:30 am
Friday, 11/7/14, 1:30–3:30 pm
Saturday, 12/13/14, 9:30–11:30 am
Friday, 1/2/15, 1:30–3:30 pm
Saturday, 2/14/15, 9:30–11:30 am
Friday, 3/6/15, 1:30–3:30 pm (Mastronardi A)

Join us for the next planning meeting if you would like to get involved or know someone who you think could be part of our team. There are several interesting opportunities for
Volunteers:  Development (fund raising), PR (public relations)
Contact Co-Directors:  Lorrin Johnson, 212 854 2437; eddlorrin@yahoo.com
Wilma Gitchel, 914 332 1064; wilmagitchel@optonline.net
Marilee Scheuneman, 914 965 0197; Marilee@scheuneman.com

SAVE THIS DATE: March 21, 2015 for our twelfth Annual Explore Your OpportunitiesTM Conference at the College of Mount Saint Vincent to excite 7th grade girls about science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

 You can help our conference for 7th grade girls, “Explore Your Opportunities–The Sky’s the Limit!” when you order from Amazon .com by going through our website:
www.aauw-eyoconference.org and clicking on the Amazon button at the bottom of the page.  Doesn’t cost you anything and we get a tiny percentage.  Thank you!

AAUW-EYO Conference 2014

 Karen Jacobsen, The GPS Girl!

The GPS Girl

Karen Jacobsen’s speaking voice is in over 100 million GPS units giving drivers directions worldwide as “Australian Karen”.  If you have an iPhone and use the Siri application, you may already be familiar with Karen’s speaking voice, as she is the Australian Siri voice in 40 million iPhones around the world. A recent TEDx speaker, she has appeared on ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Early Show, in The New York Times, NY Daily News, Glamour magazine and was named one of People Magazine¹s Most Intriguing People in 2010.

Karen has shared the stage with Norah Jones and Christopher Cross, and has performed The Star Spangled Banner at many major sporting events including the New York Jets game at Giants Stadium to a crowd of 80, 000 people. The GPS Girl® speaks, writes and sings for groups who want to inspire the best in their people, and create a road map for their future. I am pleased to report that Maria Ellis, President of the Empire State Virtual Branch, has invited Karen to be the keynote speaker at the “Explore Your Opportunity – The Sky’s the Limit Conference” at the College of Mount Saint Vincent on April 12, 2014.

This will be an educational and fun conference and you are all invited to join us!  If you want to participate email Lorrin Johnson at eddlorrin@yahoo.com.