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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
Expanding Your Horizons 2015
Tools of the Trade presenter Dr. Rachel Seltzer shows students how to deal with a person (Tiffany Howard, medical assistant), who is choking.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
In Stitch It Up!, Angela Lackey of Deming pulls out the stitches she just put into fake skin to sew up a long cut.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
Samantha Arteaga of Deming shows her stitching skills in Stitch it Up!
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Amanda Martinez also works on stitching up a wound.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
Dr. Michelle Cortes, a resident physician on rotation at Hidalgo Medical Center in Silver City, teaches the Stitch It Up! class.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
The Mystery of the Mines shows students determining what kind of ore they have "mined."
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Allison Barnes of La Plata Middle School tries to find copper nuggets.-?`^
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Rebekah Marquez of Calvary Christian Academy sorts out the copper she has "mined."
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Valerie Silva -?of Dugan Tarango Middle School in Lordsburg runs the truck on top of the "mine."
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
In Physical Therapy: Your Career, Your Life, Galilea Navarrte of Columbus Elementary -?and Emily Gossett of La Plata Middle School do strenuous exercise to find out their heart rates.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
In Wet and WILD!, Promise Elias from Deming finds out what happens when she doesn't speak up loudly (she gets sprayed with a water run).
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Carolyn Koury, Gila National Forest hydrologist, keeps the water gun ready for soft speakers and wrong answers in Wet and WILD!
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
Caroline Baldwin in Chart Your Path in the Sky shows charts used by airplane pilots.
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Patricia Frisch, Chino Mine geologist, and her daughter, show off different types of rocks in Rock 'n' Roll.
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Dr. Dierdre Wilmeth holds one of the goats so students can listen through the stethoscope to the sounds of the goat's gut in Vet for your Pet.
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In Junior Vet for Your Pet, taught by Dr. Diedre Wilmeth, the dog Texas shows off how well he behaves.
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In What Does a Nurse Do, Alexis Harsch, CNP, demonstrates on Emily Montes-?of Deming how to tighten the cord before drawing blood, as-?Mariana Molina of Deming watches.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
In Capsules, Lotions and 'Magic Potions,' Gabriella Torrez and Danica Valencia of Harrison Schmitt create capsules.
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In Rockin' Around New Mexico, Bonnie Ertel, Freeport geologist, helps the girls color in their maps with the correct rock type.
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Nathan Hobbs. FMI geologist, talks about limestone.
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In Bare Bones!, the teacher shows what a human skull looks like as compared to an early hominid skull replica of Lucy.
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In Meet ALICE!, one of the volunteers, Sunny James-Atwater, explains to Sierra J. Valdespino for Deming Intermediate School how to create a world using the software found at alice.org.
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Kurstyn Johnson of Cliff shows her created world, Nell.
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Talyse Hansen of Jos+? Barrios decides to call her created world, Three Sisters.
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Dakota Allred of La Plata gets the answer correct at that STEM Trivia wheel.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
Haley Jacquez and Haley Salgado of La Plata monkey around at lunch.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015
Students wait their turn at the STEM Trivia wheel to answer questions correctly and receive prizes.
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In the third session of the day, Extension Office 4-H agent Marley Runyon, helps Alexandra Hemmer of Glenwood -?prepare to make a 'smore in the microwave in Magnetron Magic.
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Expanding Your Horizons 2015 brought more than 300 girls from fifth through eighth grades from schools in the four counties of southwest New Mexico
Each girl attended and participated in three choices from among 20 classes. The program, which is 23 years old, attempts and succeeds in getting girls interested in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.