EYH Description and Facts

EYH Description and Facts
Expanding Your Horizons --- EYH
A Career Conference for 9th - 12th Grade Young Women
1985-2004

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Expanding Your Horizons (EYH)

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EYH Program Description

Despite the demand for well-educated workers and decades of work to bring women into highly skilled positions in fields such as math, science, engineering and technology, an overwhelming majority of young women still lack the confidence to enter these exciting careers.

By reaching out to girls in ninth through twelfth grades, Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) catches women at a pivotal point when they can still embark on educational paths towards highly skilled careers. The goals of Expanding Your Horizons are threefold:

	Provide high school girls with opportunities to meet and interact with positive role models who have active professional careers in mathematics, science, and technology;
	Give young women positive, hands-on experiences in these same fields;
	Provide young women with clear information on opportunities for future careers in mathematics, science, engineering & technology.

EYH Facts

The following facts are from the Math/Science Network at:
www.expandingyourhorizons.org.

	The Math/Science Network created the first EYH Conference at Mills College in 1976.
	A total of 9,800 students of color attended EYH Conferences in 2000-01.
	In 2000-2001, the percentage of middle school students relative to high school students returned to a 4 to 1 ratio.
	The percentage of high school students increased in 2000-2001.
	The Math/Science Network and many EYH conference organizers work to ensure that there is a cross-section of the entire community.
	All reports indicate that personal contact is one of the keys to recruiting role models and young women from underrepresented groups.
	35% of EYH attendees identified themselves as members of non-European descent in 2000-01, a 2% increase over the previous year.

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