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Published: 27 February 2017 27 February 2017

Photos by Mary Alice Murphy

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.