Expanding Your Horizons - Math & Science for Girls

If you haven't heard of the Expanding your Horizons (aka - EYH) conferences you're missing out. These are one day conferences for girls in which women role models, from math and science related fields, do hands-on workshops with girls to inspire them to consider working toward careers in science, technology engineering, and math. I've been involved in the Mills College conference and the San Franciso State Univ. conference, but there are conferences all over the Bay Area and in most states in the country. The San Francisco EYH is coming up Saturday November 3rd, so if you know any middle school girls who would benefit from some fun inspiration in these areas, check it out here. And to find other sites around the country check with the national organization here.

Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician

Here's a good one from Wired Magazine, back in August of this year.

"The actress who played Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years, Danica McKellar, is a self-proclaimed math advocate for girls who might otherwise shy away from a subject that Barbie once famously described as 'hard.'

McKellar's math book for junior high girls, called Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math and not Break a Nail, will be out Thursday. It has the look and feel of a teen magazine, but puts heavy emphasis on fractions and pre-algebra."

It's great to see celebs encouraging girls in math. The Expanding Your Horizon's conferences have been doing it for 30 years, but this will surely help the message go mainstream in a bigger way.