Cornell University

“EYH boosted my interest in math and science. Now I have a solid experience to guide future decisions. I met people who were genuinely excited about how much their fields have to offer.” 2014 student

Saturday, April 18, 2015 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM

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Expanding Your Horizons 2015

The Expanding Your Horizons Conference provides a hands-on opportunity for girls in grades 7-9 and their parents to learn about careers involving mathematics, science, and engineering. Meet women who are physicists, astronomers, chemists, biologists, computer scientists, and more. See for yourself how exploring mathematics and science can lead to fun and rewarding careers! At the EYH conference, you will attend two or three hands-on interactive workshops, each offering a different perspective on science, mathematics, or engineering. You will hear from our keynote speaker, Dr. Wendy Hill, an accomplished scientist and the newest head at The Agnes Irwin School (biography on page 5). You will receive a folder full of fascinating information. At the end of the day, you’ll receive a free EYH t-shirt! PLEASE NOTE: This year, we are using a lottery system to determine who can attend EYH. The registration lottery will be open March 2-6 on our website at www.eyh.cornell.edu. The registration process will be online-only; if this is a hardship for you, please call us at (607) 255-9547. If you are selected for EYH, we will give you instructions for completing your registration. More details and dates can be found on page 12-13. For more information, please contact us. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: (607) 255-9547 Fax: (607) 255-3957 Website: www.eyh.cornell.edu 3

3 Workshop Track Conference Schedule (Locations TBA) 8:00 - 9:00 8:00 - 9:00 9:00 - 9:45 9:00 - 9:55 9:45 - 10:10 9:55 - 10:15 10:20 - 11:30 11:45 - 12:30 12:30 - 1:15 1:35 - 2:45 3:10 - 4:20 4:20 - 4:30 4:30 - 5:00

Breakfast Registration & Science Display Girls Welcome & Keynote Address Adults Welcome & Panel: Life as a Scientist Girls escorted to Workshop 1 for Buddy Pairing Parents meet girls at Workshop 1 Workshop 1 Lunch (group A) and demo (group B) Lunch (group B) and demo (group A) Workshop 2 Workshop 3 Reconvene Closing Remarks and Raffle Drawing

2 Workshop Track Conference Schedule 8:00 - 9:00 8:00 - 9:00 9:00 - 9:45 9:00 - 9:55 9:45 - 10:05 9:55 - 10:05 10:05 - 10:35 10:45 - 12:25 12:35 - 1:15 1:25 - 2:10 2:20 - 4:00 4:00 - 4:30 4:30 - 5:00

Breakfast Registration & Science Display Girls Welcome & Keynote Address Adults Welcome & Panel: Life as a Scientist Girls escorted to Demo Fair for Buddy Pairing Parents meet girls at Demo Fair 9th Grade Demo Fair Workshop 1 Lunch 9th Grade Activity Workshop 2 Reconvene Closing Remarks and Raffle Drawing

The 2 workshop track is designed specifically for 9th grade girls who are beginning to take high school-level science courses. They offer the girls an opportunity to gain more in-depth and hands-on experience in different STEM fields. See pg.11 for workshop descriptions.

What students gained from EYH 2014    

“It has widened my knowledge on different topics. I now know more options for different types of science careers.” “I was already in love with science, this just excited me more.” “It made me realize how important science is in everyday life.” “It has made me excited for a future in math & science.” 4

Keynote Address We are honored to introduce our keynote speaker, Dr. Wendy Hill, an accomplished scientist and the newest head at The Agnes Irwin School, an all-girls pre-K-to-12 school in Rosemont, PA. Previously, Dr. Hill was the Rappolt Professor of Neuroscience and Provost and Dean of the Faculty at Lafayette College. Her research focused on the neural mediation of pair bonding in birds as well as the adaptive significance of animal social behavior and grouping strategies. Dr. Hill has received numerous awards for teaching and research, including the James McKeen Catell national award for her scholarly work. She was named the Pennsylvania Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Dr. Hill holds a B.A. in psychology from Douglass College, a women’s college at Rutgers University, and a Ph.D. from the animal behavior program at the University of Washington. You can learn more about her work at her keynote address.

Life as a Scientist Panel Parents, teachers, and other interested adults play an essential role in developing young girls’ interest in math and science. This afternoon session is designed to be an informative discussion between parents and prominent women scientists regarding how parents can promote the participation of their daughters in science. Panelists will discuss their careers, education, and research experience, and will give parents suggestions for supporting their daughters as they pursue careers in science, medicine, and engineering. The panelists have varied backgrounds and experiences in academia and industry. The session will include a question/answer period to allow for further discussion of topics of interest. The Life as a Scientist panel begins at 9:00 am. Conference volunteers will be available to assist the girls to their workshops after the keynote address. Please visit our website to view the names and biographies of the 2015 Life as a Scientist Panelists: www.eyh.cornell.edu 2014 Panelists are pictured

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2015 Workshop Descriptions 1. Alchemy 101 Alchemists in the Middles Ages were obsessed with how to turn simple stones into precious metals such as silver and gold. In this workshop, we will do our own alchemy by turning sugar and salt into silver mirrors you can take home. We will also explore other elements and colorful reactions that alchemists marveled at. 2. Alien Worlds Eclipsing Distant Suns Did you know that the Kepler space telescope has discovered thousands of alien worlds orbiting stars just like our Sun? Come build a working mini-Kepler to observe the eclipse of a planetary system and learn how astronomers use these observations to measure distant worlds. Learn how to become a citizen scientist and help discover exoplanets from the comfort of your own home! 3. Bad to the Bone: Injuries and Repair Athletic injuries are a fact of life, but what does it mean when you break a bone? How do you fix a broken bone? Explore these ideas by smashing real animal bones and piecing them back together and exploring the science behind how bones work! 4. Brains!!! Your brain lets you walk, talk, breathe, and more—all at the same time! Scientists are only beginning to understand how the brain works. Learn about how scientists study the brain and the different parts of the brain - where they are, what they do, and what happens if they're gone. We will see (and touch!) real human and animal brains and meet the animals whose brains we study. NOTE: Animal Allergens.

5. Building a Bridge to Engineering How do bridges like The Golden Gate Bridge or the Tower Bridge stay standing year after year? Why do some bridges suddenly give way and collapse? We will explore the building process behind bridges and build and test our own bridges! Also, you will learn about Cornell’s very own bridges. 6. Chemistry of Crime Scenes Have you ever watched a show like C.S.I. and wondered how did they do that? We will explore different investigative techniques, like fingerprinting, and reveal the chemistry and science behind it. Join us as crime scene investigators!

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7. Colorful Crystal Explosives What do rubies, ice, and potato starch have in common? They are all crystals! Using a special type of light microscope, we’ll view various crystals and the brilliant colors they produce. Specimens include everyday salts, potato starch, and organic explosives, like TNT! You can take pictures of your crystals to show friends and family. 8. Command Your Own Robot How would you like to have your own robot that could do your chores at home or drive you to school? Come and see how what was once science fiction is becoming part of our daily lives. You will get to program a real robot and watch it compete against your friends’! 9. Crazy Cascadilla Creek What crazy creatures live in Cascadilla Creek? Explore the stream to catch and meet the animals that call Cascadilla home. We'll have the D-nets, dip nets, seines, viewing boxes, sieves - you bring your sense of adventure. NOTE: Off campus, outdoors, wear old shoes, you will get wet, and bring rubber waders/ boots if you have them. 10. Doctor, Doctor! X-ray, chemotherapy...amazing progress has been made in medicine. Yet, millions of people never experience these cures. You will develop solutions such as using your phone camera to provide lifesaving diagnoses, checking vitals and blood flow with ultrasound, and turning your bike pump into a medical device. 11. Exploring Math: Patterns and Puzzles Do you know how to turn your pants inside out without taking them off? Or how to win games every time? What’s the craziest shape you can make with a bubble? Can you figure out a way to do a scavenger hunt without retracing your steps? All these questions can be answered using math! 12. Eye Spy Did you know that everything we see is an illusion? Learn how the eye transforms energy from light to allow us to visualize and navigate our world. We will examine the color spectrum, dissect cow eyes, and perform experiments to learn how we detect objects and scenes. 13. Genetic Freaks Ever wonder why sisters and brothers don't look exactly alike? We'll use mom and dad "bugs" to show how genes are passed from parents to kids and how different combinations occur. Using our bugs' genes, you'll build your own baby genetic freak. Unlike real bugs, you'll want to eat these! 7

14. Going Viral If you’ve had the flu, you know what it’s like to be infected by a virus. Ever wondered how you got that virus and how it makes you sick? We will track a disease outbreak back to patient zero, uncover how viruses spread from person to person, and explore how a virus makes you sick when it gets inside your body. 15. Googling with Paper Airplanes Ever wondered how computers talk to each other? How a video from California gets onto your phone in New York? Do you like to throw paper airplanes? Come learn how the internet works by throwing paper airplanes! 16. H2O Detectives Come be a water sleuth with us! Learn why some rivers get muddy and contaminated while others stay clean, or how humans can affect flooding. We will figure out how water and pollutants move across the landscape by building our own watershed models! 17. Juice From Juice Did you know that you can make electricity from something as ordinary as a berry? We can use solar cells to convert the energy of light into electric charge. Come learn how to design, build, and try out your own berry-powered solar cell! 18. Life in Lakes Have you jumped into a warm lake to find your upper body in warm water and feet in cold water? Lakes are made up of several different habitats that change dramatically throughout the year. Come find out why and to learn how this impacts animals that live in lakes. 19. Lip Balm & perfume Ever wondered how lip balm keeps your lips hydrated or why perfume smells so nice? Discover the steps used to extract and purify scents to make perfume and the science behind lip balm. Make your own perfume and lip balm and see tools that companies use to make these products for millions of people. 20. Make Your Own Radio! Ever wonder how or why your radio works? How does it play your favorite songs with nothing more than a small piece of metal? Come find out by making your own radio and use it to listen to real radio stations around Cornell’s campus. You’ll get to take a homemade radio home with you as a souvenir!

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21. Marine Biology: Whales to Snails What does a typical day look like for a marine biologist? Find out through some hands-on fun! Learn how fish eat, breathe, and sense, how a marine mammalogist identifies individual humpback whales, and how delicate creatures like starfish and cleaner shrimp survive in unique habitats. NOTE: You will be doing a dissection; be prepared to get a little messy! 22. Materials in the House Plastic is everywhere in your household. In this workshop, you will learn about plastics by making Nylon and Silly Putty and (even more fun) by shattering CDs and straws to see how and why these materials break. 23. Photochemistry: Printing is Believing Before there was Instagram there were anthotypes! And cyanotypes and albumin prints! Photographs weren’t always a phone feature. For centuries, photographic prints were made by hand utilizing light sensitive chemicals. Learn how to make your own photographic paper from fruits and vegetables, and then harness the sunlight to make prints on fabric. 24. The Physics of Bubbles Did you know that there's a lot of really interesting physics in bubbles? We will investigate the science of bubbles with handson experiments. We’ll try to answer: what gives bubbles their colors and shape? Why do you get an explosion of bubbles when you mix Mentos and Diet Coke? Come and play with bubbles and discover fun science! 25. Play or Get Played Do you like to play games? Are you a competitive or a cooperative player? Discover what kind of decision maker you are! Game theory is the study of strategic decision making, and we will test the predictions of this theory by playing five behavioral games. We’ll collect data and discuss the importance of making decisions in the animal kingdom. Winning isn’t always as easy as it seems, and in some games, everyone can be a winner! 26. Program Your Own Animation! Ever wondered how to make an animated film, or what it takes to write your own video game? We'll teach you how to use Scratch, a popular, free program, to make your own computer generated films or video games and how to upload them to the Scratch website so that you can share them with your friends and the rest of the world! 9

27. Racing Reactions How do you control a chemical reaction? In this workshop, you will learn how to perform a reaction that changes colors right before your eyes! We will explore how we can control the speed of this reaction as well as learn about other reactions that occur around us every day. 28. Reverse your Taste buds How does our tongue work to allow us to taste sweet, salty, and sour foods? Why can’t every food taste sweet? Well, now it can! With a miraculous natural fruit, your taste buds will turn upside down. Discover the science behind taste and the biological signaling events that make it all possible. 29. Skillful Skeletons How can scientists tell if dinosaurs hunted by sight, sound, or smell? Or what kind of food they ate? Or how they moved around? Learn how you can figure these things out, and why animals look the way they do, with modern animal bones!

30. Somebody Call the Plant Doctor Somebody call the doctor...the plant doctor! Have you ever wondered what is spoiling your favorite fruits and veggies? Plants can get diseases, just like you and me. Take a trip with us to the lab and solve the mystery of what is killing your tomato plants and making your potatoes a rotten mess! 31. The Psychology of Teams Come participate in the Psychology Olympics! Work with your team members and compete against your peers in games of creativity, fitness, and brain power. Through these games, you will learn about the psychology of teamwork. Learn how these psychological concepts apply to daily life.

32. Thirsty Plants: The Fight for Water Water is essential to life. Unlike human beings, plants are stationary and cannot walk to a tap to satisfy their thirst, yet they can survive in the same location for decades. How do they do that? In this workshop, you will learn the specific tricks that plants have developed to take up water from the soil and transport it all the way up to their leaves!

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9th Grade Workshops 33. BaNa2_Bread Test your taste buds and learn why a sour apple candy doesn’t actually taste like an apple. In this workshop you will synthesize isoamyl acetate, better known as synthetic banana flavoring. We will then be making (and tasting) banana bread muffins made with real bananas and synthetic flavoring to see if we can tell the difference. Come learn about the flavors in your food! 34. Earthquake! Do you know why earthquakes happen? Come to this workshop and learn how seismologists look at seismograms from all around the world to determine where earthquakes occur and where the next big one may be. Set up your own experiment to simulate and locate an earthquake, then look at real data collected in Ithaca to put your new knowledge to the test! 35. Engineering Fashion We use electrical devices everyday, but have you ever built one yourself? It’s easier than you might think! In this workshop you will design and build a simple electrical circuit and then sew a bracelet that lights up in the dark. Come explore where electrical engineering and art collide and learn how electricity is used to power everything around us. 36. The Error of Our Ways Ever wonder why people sometimes make such bad choices? Or how two people can reach very different answers to the same question? We make many decisions every day and it’s very easy to make mistakes. Come learn how choices and decisions can go awry and how to make yourself invincible against the common mistakes that everyone makes! 37. Turning on the Lights! Have you ever passed by a wind farm and wondered what the “windmills” were for? Wind farms convert the energy in the wind into electricity. Join us in this exciting workshop, where you will get to build your very own wind electricity generator and test it to turn real lights on! 11

Lottery & Registration Information We are using a lottery system again to determine who can attend EYH. Girls will be able to sign up for the EYH lottery online March 2-6. We will announce the lottery results on March 9. If you are selected for EYH, we will give you instructions for completing your registration. See next page for important dates. Entering the lottery and making a registration is online-only; we are no longer accepting paper registration forms. If this is a hardship for you, please contact us and we will work with you to complete your lottery entry and registration. Online lottery options (www.eyh.cornell.edu):  Group Lottery Entry: We welcome group registrations! If you are a group leader, you can enter 2-25 girls in a group lottery. Your group will be accepted or denied as a single unit. 

Individual Lottery Entry: Parents may enter each girl separately in the individual lottery (in which case their lottery results could be different).

NOTE: Each girl can only be entered in one of the lotteries. Spaces in the conference will be split between the individual and group lotteries in proportion to the number of entrants, so there is no advantage to entering one lottery vs. the other. Group leader responsibilities: If your group is selected for participation in EYH, you will be our contact-person for all registration logistics. You will pass on information about the conference to your group members. You will ensure that each girl completes her online registration on time. You will submit a single payment to EYH to cover the registration fees for all group members. On the morning of the conference, you will sign your group in at the EYH registration table, and will coordinate the distribution of nametags and folders to your group members. For safety purposes, if you are unable to serve as group leader on the day of the conference please let us know ASAP who the replacement group leader will be. You can be the group leader for only one group. Continued on next page...

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2015 Lottery and Registration Timeline Monday – Friday, March 2-6

EYH lottery open on our website www.eyh.cornell.edu

Monday, March 9

Lottery results announced by email

Monday – Friday, March 9-13

Full online registration open to lottery winners

Friday, March 20

Payment & signed parental consent forms due

Saturday, April 18

EYH Conference

Conference Fees There is no fee to enter the registration lottery. If you are selected to attend EYH, the registration fee is $20 per student. With this payment, the student will receive:  Participation in two to three hands-on workshops, the keynote address, science displays and demos, and a raffle of science-related prizes  One EYH T-shirt  Breakfast and lunch for herself and for one accompanying adult We encourage each girl to bring an accompanying adult to the conference. There is no additional fee for the participation of an accompanying adult. Additional adults can register for $10. Additional T-shirts can be purchased for $10. Any girl who does not have an accompanying adult will be assigned a Cornell Buddy for the day. However, we want to open EYH to as many girls as possible, and the availability of Cornell Buddies is a limiting factor on the size of the conference. Registration fees are not refundable. 13

Scholarships We are happy to announce that we have limited funding available for student scholarships. You will be able to request a scholarship when you register.

Don’t miss out on Science Demos! During registration in the morning and during lunch, there will be a variety of cool demos where you can see science in action! Just wander over to the “Science Demos” sign where you can do things like: 1. Pedal a bicycle driven generator to power different lightbulbs 2. Watch magnets floating and defying gravity 3. See liquid nitrogen ice cream be made and eat it 4. Watch liquid nitrogen freeze everyday objects and see what happens when they get smashed 5. Go to the Bug Zoo and see bugs you’ve never seen before, and even hold some of them 6. Get a tour of the Biotechnology Resource Center where they capture images for scientific study ranging in size from subcellular units like chromosomes and mitochondria, all the way to whole organisms (sign up for these tours at the “Science Demos” sign)

Questions? Check the FAQ on our website www.eyh.cornell.edu. If you still have questions, please contact EYH registration at [email protected].

The success of EYH rests on the hard work of many dedicated volunteers, including EYH chairs, workshop leaders, buddies, and most importantly, your participation. We hope you will be able to join us! 14

2014 EYH Conference Sponsors EYH would not be possible without the generous support of these donors (Italics indicate premier donor): Time Warner Cable - Connect a Million Minds Campaign

Department of Computer Science

Cornell Women's Resource Center

Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology Department of Entomology

Cornell Center for Materials Research

Cornell Graduate & Professional Student Department of Food Science Assembly Department of Horticulture College of Agriculture & Life Sciences Diversity Programs in Engineering

Department of Information Science

School of Applied & Engineering Physics Department of Molecular Biology & Genetics Energy Materials Center at Cornell

Department of Physics

Center for Applied Mathematics

Department of Plant Breeding & Genetics

Cognitive Science Program

Department of Plant Pathology & PlantMicrobe Biology

Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station

Department of Sociology

Cornell Cooperative Extension

Department of Animal Science

Institute for Biotechnology & Life Science Technologies KAUST-Cornell Center for Energy & Sustainability Laboratory of Geoff Coates

Department of Astronomy

Laboratory of John Guckenheimer

Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering Department of Biological Statistics & Computational Biology Department of Biomedical Sciences

New York Space Grant Consortium

Cornell Lab of Ornithology

Weill Institute for Cell & Molecular Biology

We also appreciate the donations of many departments that provide equipment, rooms, and other materials for workshops. A complete list of 2015 sponsors will be distributed at the conference in April.

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Expanding Your Horizons Educational Programs Office Cornell Center for Materials Research 631 Clark Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853

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