EWomen @ Expand Your Horizons conference

eWomen present workshops at the EYH 2007 conference
March 3, 2007, Jack Baskin Engineering Building

eWomen members are organizing four fun and interesting hands-on workshops as part of the Expand Your Horizons 2007 conference for 8th-12th grade young women. Check out the abstracts below and make sure you come back to see pictures from the conference!

• #1 Scavenger Hunt: The Human Genome
  Rachel Harte, Kate Rosenbloom, Heather Trumbower, Ann Zweig, Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, UCSC
  Genes determine your eye color, height, and even how healthy you are. Search through human, chimpanzee, mouse and fish DNA and find genes! Prerequisite: 1 year of high school biology




• #5 Programming the Nano Mouse
  Laura Chiticariu, Jessica Gronski, Computer Science Graduate Program, UCSC
  Learn simple programming and engineering concepts while teaching an electronic mouse how to run! Have fun watching the "nano mouse" obey your commands! (The nanomice are graciously provided by the UCSC SOE Honor Society).




• #6 Simulating Planet Smashing
  Adrienne Traxler, Applied Math and Statistics Graduate Program, UCSC
  Giant impacts helped form our solar system. See how computers are used to model these collisions, and smash some planets of your own.




• #16 Red Light! Green Light!
  Martine Schlag, Professor, Computer Engineering, UCSC
  Build a flashing digital circuit with your newfound understanding of electronics using wires, chips, resistors, capacitors, and LEDs.