Expanding Your Horizons offers science activities to girls from 5th through 8th grades to get a taste of what a career in science can involve. Students from Silver City and Deming took advantage of the program on Saturday.
Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
Expanding Your Horizons 2014
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Zenaya Blue of Ruben S. Torres School in Deming shows off the "sedimentary" layers she will use in Rockin' Around New Mexico.
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Daniell Arizaga of La Plata Middle School in Silver City, presses her sedimentary layers together.
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Makinzie Gray of Ruben S. Torres in Deming folks the sedimentary layers.
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Danica Romo and Yeana Camarena of Bayard Elementary School study 'The Amazing Eye."
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Gelsay Siquieros stirs the stawberry mixture to discover the fruit's DNAquieros of La Plata
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Raeya Hernamdez of La Plata discovers a stawberry's DNA
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Sterling Wecks of G. W. Stout Elemntary concentrates on the strawberry DNA
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Miriam Heredia and Sandra Sanchez of Red Mountain Middle School in Deming experiment with Fortune-telling fish with WNMU professor Kathy Whiteman
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Allison Barnes, in front, and Victoria Morales of La Plata pull the strwberry DNA out of the glass.
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Several girls point out the ChemMixtures and ChemMysteries they discovered and created.
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In Capsule, Potions and Lotions, Esmia Martinez of La Plata and Lillith Harsh from Stout Elementary, watch as presenter Barbara Wood helps crush a Tums to put inside a capsule.
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Clarissa Dominguez of Ruben S. Torres School in Deming tries to suture a cut.
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Charlotte Fritz of Harrison Schmidt Elementary School listens to her hearbeat in Medical Toolkit.
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In Wet and Wild, Xavier Koury serves as enforcer when someone misses an answer.
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Several girls want to answer the question in Wet and Wild.
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Samantha Arteaga of Ruben S. Torres School works on taking care of ore waste in The Mystery of the Mine.
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Adamari of Ruben S. Torres, at right, sifts the ore out of the pile of rock. Kim Ng, at left, is presenter.
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