Lyceum 11th Annual
Expanding Your Horizons (EYH)

STEM Conference & Career Fair
For Girls in Grades 5–10

What is Expanding Your Horizons (EYH)?

Expanding Your Horizons is a STEM Conference and Career Fair for Girls in 5th to 10th grades.

Expanding Your Horizon conferences feature fun and challenging hand-on math, science, and engineering activities led by female mathematicians, scientists and engineers.

By using local volunteers to lead workshops, you’ll meet with industry professionals who live and work in your community and who may serve as your future mentor.

All participants receive:

  • Participation in 2 hands-on STEM workshops

  • Career Fair access to meet women in STEM (with some goodie giveaways!)

  • Lyceum EYH T-shirts!

  • Lyceum Tote Bags with goodies!

  • Light breakfast snacks (muffins, granola bars, etc.)

  • Lunch (sandwiches, chips & a cookie)

  • Raffle prizes announced at end of day

Expanding Your Horizons - Monterey County is sponsored by Chevron!

Expanding Your Horizons - Monterey County is made possible by Chevron - Aces for Access!

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Sat. Nov. 4, 2023
at Hartnell College

Check-In: 8:15–9am · Conference: 9am–3pm

This is a FREE event for Monterey, San Benito, and Santa Cruz County girls!

Registration for participants opens October 11th, 2023! This event fills fast (often in first 3 days).


This day-long event includes hands-on activities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).  At the conference, young women meet female STEM role models and learn more about careers in STEM fields. 

When you register to attend the EYH conference, you can choose up to three workshop sessions that sound interesting to you. You'll be assigned to attend two sessions, and we'll try to give you your top choices. 

Read the workshop descriptions. Choose the workshops that most interest you. Feel free to select the same workshops as your friends or decide with your friends that you will attend different workshops; then tell each other about your unique experiences after the conference! 

Be prepared to be active!!! You'll do some listening, but mostly you'll be engaged in some really fun hands-on activities including robotics, forensics, animal husbandry, marine biology, boat-building, underwater exploration, aeronautics, computer science and energy.

Volunteer to present a Workshop!

  • Be the inspiration that encourages young women to explore science, technology, engineering and mathematics careers.

  • Motivate girls to become innovative and creative thinkers ready to meet 21st Century challenges.

  • Share your passion and enthusiasm for the important work you do with middle and high school girls.

Each workshop session is 75 minutes and will be presented twice.   Lunch is included for all presenters.
The maximum number of students allowed to register for each workshop will be 20.

To give you an idea of the type of workshops that will be presented, here are some of the workshops that were offered last year:

  • Don't Break the Law! - Material Engineers, Meghan Baronowski and Danielle Ramos, show an example of a fluid that defies Isaac Newton's law of viscosity. Participants will get to play with some ooey, gooey, glop...or is it?!

  • Will Pooh Go "SPLAT"? - Mechanical Engineer, Elsa Hennings and Aerospace Engineer, Alyse Dannenberg, lead a workshop involving designing a harness for a large stuffed animal, attaching it to a parachute, and making predictions where it will land, then testing those predictions.

Interested? Please call or email

Joyce Breckenridge (EYH conference coordinator)
831-372-6098
joyce@lyceum.org