Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Tools of the Trade instructor Magda Ramirez, Hidalgo Medical Services family resident, tests the reflexes of Alexous Castle of Deming.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Estrella Galicia tries her hand at testing Kaylee-Jo Johnson's reflexes. The girls are from Deming.
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Kylee Jones and Alina Duran of La Plata Middle School laugh about attempting the task.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
In the Crystal Clear activity Haley Hugley of La Plata shows off a collection of crystals.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Karen Love, Ph.D. geologist at right, summarizes what she talked about in the world of gems and minerals.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Iilana Smolik and Jaydyn Sanchez of G.W. Stout Elementary check out the contents of the bags they receive.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
In the Stitch it Up workshop, future nurses and doctors learn how to suture human skin, taught by Dr. Rachel Sonne.
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Pandora Soto of Columbus has a steady hand as she tries it out.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
In Digging Up Bones of ApesGǪ and Aunts, -?WNMU Biology Professor Manda Clair Jost, at right, asks the participants which teeth they use to chew the small piece of jerky.
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Some bones reconstructed to show hominid ancestors.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Miriam Vargas of Columbus draws the DNA out of a strawberry.Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Student Alyssa Perez of Chaparral in Deming, Victoria Chacon and McKenzie Gray, helpers, and Nevaeh Gray, also of Chapparal, test strawberry DNA.
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In Rockin' Around New Mexico, three students from Chaparral, Yahaira Bejarano, Sophia Gallosa and Meliam Diaz, learn how to identify and find ore.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
In Open Wide! Doing the dental exam, students from Silver, Cobre and Deming schools used dental impression material to create the mold of a finger.
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-?A lab full of girls participates in an always popular activity, Capsules, Lotions, "Magic Potions."
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Yareli Chavez of Bataan Elementary in Deming shows off the capsules she made.
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Chantelle Muniz and Angel Roybal of Snell Middle School also created capsules.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
In What Does a Nurse Do? Danna Chairez explains to Mireya Vasquez and Yasreli Denogean of Chapparal how to handle a needle or sharp.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
Elena Jimenez of Ruben S. Torres in Deming and Sandra Villalobos of Snell learn how to clean out a wound.
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Baby goats in Junior Vet for Your Pet.
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Ashley Moon talks about the three-legged dog and how it was healed, as Aarlet Hermosillo and JoAnna Rodriguez of Columbus, Marissa Jones of Sixth Street Elementary and Shantea Castillo of Red Mountain in Deming pet the dog.
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Veterinarian Dr. Diedre Wilmeth shows Mindy Ortega, Isabel Ortega and Diana Hermosillo a Peruvian guinea pig.
Expanding Your Horizons 2017
In Chemixtures and Chemystries, Alina Becerra and Jocelyn Ibarra of Bataan Elementary make slime.
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Students in the Modern Who Done It? activity hear about how a crime scene is processed from professionals at the Albuquerque crime lab.
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During the lunch break for students and presenters, a cake celebrating the 25th anniversary of Expanding Your Horizons was presented to the activity leaders.
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WNMU Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs Jack Crocker congratulates "everyone who made it happen 25 years ago."
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-?In the It's Electrifying activity, girls learned about energy sources, including solar and wind energy. -?Jen Cooper, second from left, shows Bree Bivens of Lordsburg and Isela Rodriguez and Estrella Galicia of Chaparral how to make a propeller.
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In Wet and Wild, girls learn about the life cycle of the Gila trout. Here they listen to a presenter about careers in the federal government.
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In Meet Alice, girls learn how to create graphics using the Alice 3D software. Yessily Camunez of Chaparral builds an ocean scene.
Expanding Your Horizons brought more than 200 girls to the Western New Mexico University campus to learn about science, technology, engineering and math opportunities for careers for girls.
In this 25th year of the program, girls from the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades from Silver Schools, Cobre schools and from Lordsburg, Deming and Columbus school took part in the 21 different activities. Three sessions of each gave girls the opportunity to choose from the various potential career options.
Mikki Jemin, EYH coordinator, said some of the original participants in offering the activities are still doing so, and their daughters, who once took part as young girls, are now also participating as mentors to the students.
WNMU each year provides the venues at no cost to the program. The American Association of University Women was one of the first sponsors and continues in the role. Other sponsors include Forward New Mexico, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., Girl Scouts, New Mexico Network for Women in Science and Engineering and Morning Star, which printed T-shirts for the participants.