Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Each year, Expanding Your Horizons, offers classes in various careers in science, technology, engineering and math to young women in grades 5th through 8th from schools around the area, including Silver, Cobre, Lordsburg and Deming.
This year was the 24th annual EYH held in Silver City at Western New Mexico University.
Each girl signs up for three activities and learns from women in the careers.
Expanding Your Horizons 2016
Expanding Your Horizons 2016
In Rock 'N' Roll, girls learned what rocks and minerals are made of, how to identify them and how they are used in everyday life.
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In Rock 'N' Roll, Freeport McMoRan geology Patricia Frisch hands out rocks for the girls to identify.
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Judy O'Loughlin, Grant County Extension Agent, teaches Magnetron Magic, about how the microwave works to hear sugar, fats and water-based liquid. And the bonus was to make cosmetics.
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Girls wait their turn to make cosmetics using the microwave.
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Physical Therapist Suzanne Thomas teaches Physical TherapyG??Your career, your life, your health! Girls got to test their balance and strength in real physical therapy activities.
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In Rockin' Around New Mexico, Freeport McMoRan geologist Nicole King, prepares the girls to go drilling for "ore" in the clay "mountains."
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Jessica Hobbs, Freeport McMoRan geologist, shows the process of finding and drilling for ore.
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Girls go "drilling for ore" with a straw. From left are April Olivarez, Carlie Funk, Kaylani Gonzales, Alexandra Gonzales and Jacky Garcia.
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Marianna Love and Zoe Dominguez dissect a sheep eye, which is very similar to a human eye, in the activity The Amazing Eye.
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In Digging Up Bones of Apes... and Aunts, girls meet their extinct hominid ancestors, affectionately known as our "aunts."
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In It's Electrifying, girls explore solar energy and how to create an electrical circuit taught by Debbi Luka.
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in Capsules, Lotions, "Magic Potions," girls create "pills" and lotions they can take home. From left are Victoria Turner putting the crushed pill ingredients into ad capsule, and Sophia Scott crushing the "pill."
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Expanding Your Horizons 2016
Jasmin Ramirez fills her "pill" in Capsules, Lotions "Magic Potions."
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In What Does a Nurse Do?, nurse Ronita Rodgers helps Eunice Martinez, at right, learn how to take Priscilla Miranda's blood pressure.
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Two goats play at Junior Vet for Your Pet.
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In Junior Vet for Your Pet, veterinarian Dr. Deidre Wilmeth, seated on the table at far left, showed the girls how to read an ultrasound and how to take an animal's blood pressure.
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In Open Wide! Doing the Dental Exam and... MORE, Dr. Kaiyra Salcido, HMS dentist, helped the girls make dental molds of their teeth.
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The girls at Open Wide! wait their turns to answer questions while their teeth molds get ready to go home with them.
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Girls in Wet and Wild learn about careers for women in the federal government, and about conservation and water quality and the Gila Trout.
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In Wet and WILD! Carolyn Koury of the Gila National Forest has the girls participate in a game about the life cycle of the Gila Trout.
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In Tools of the Trade, girls learn how to use some doctor's tools. Here Abigail Carreon tests Arlette Moreno's reflexes.
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In Stitch It Up!, girls learn how to do medical suturing and surgical know tying. Roselyn Velasquez, Galilia Martinez, and Clarissa Dominguez try their hand at stitching a "wound."
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In Never Stop ExploringG??Using technology to view your world, WNMU professor Kathy Whitman, at right, shows Madison Forentino and Brianna Wentz how to use applied geography on the computer.
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Tara Whittle shows an ocean in a bottle in Chemixtures and Chemistries.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2016
Arely Rodriguez, in front, shows a lava lamp made in Chemixtures and Chemysteries.
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Whittle prepares to "burn" a dollar bill without it catching on fire.
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The bill blazes, but does not burn. By the way, it is illegal to deface, burn, tear or destroy dollar bills.
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Girls gather for a pizza party for lunch.
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Girls check out the software in Meet ALICE, before they start creating their animations.
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In Meet Alice!, girls receive free 3D software to create animations or games. Cashlynn Clayton of Bayard Elementary watches the video she has created.
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In Inside a Strawberry, girls learn how to extract strawberry DNA. Pilar Sanchez of Deming Intermediate, separates the strawberry DNA from the rest of the fruit.
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