Expanding Your Horizons 2026 Partner Registration
Expanding Your Horizons takes place on Saturday, November 14, 2026, at Hartnell College in Salinas, CA. It is a daylong STEM conference where girls, grades 5th-10th, attend hands-on workshops and a career fair led by female professionals in STEM.
LEADING A WORKSHOP
Career Fair
If you are interested in doing both a workshop and the career fair, you must register for both!
EYH Workshops 🔬🧪🧫
Share your STEM knowledge & experience by leading morning and afternoon workshop with a hands-on activity at the Lyceum’s Expanding Your Horizons Conference. Open to girls in grades 5 to 10—with most attendees in grades 6, 7 & 8.
📝 Workshop Schedule
9am: Register/check-in at exhibit hall.
This is a suggestion, but please consider the time you need to set-up, and adjust your arrival time accordingly. Staff will be on premises by 7:30am.
10am-11:15am: Morning Workshop
11:15am-12:30pm: Lunch
1pm-2:15pm: Afternoon workshop
2:15pm-2:25pm: distribute and collect student evaluation forms (return completed forms to Faculty lounge).
✅ 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!
📝 Workshop Highlights
Incorporate a hands-on activity for girls to practice what they’re learning
Facility include science labs, classrooms & outdoor spaces with options for projectors, running water, and more
Two 75-minute sessions presented at 10am and 1pm
Up to 10, 15 or 20 participants
Lunch provided plus a $100 Amazon gift card for each organization that leads a workshop
Examples of previous year's workshops:
Don't Break the Law! - Material Engineers, Meghan Baronowski and Danielle Ramos, showed 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, led 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.
Represent Yourself & Your Organization!
The Lyceum of Monterey is looking for females in STEM fields to serve as professional role models for girls in grades 5 to 10 at the Lyceum’s Expanding Your Horizons Career Fair! All professionals working in STEM fields are welcome to participate.
📝 Career Fair Schedule
Staffing a table is free & lunch is on us!
10:30am: Arrive for set up in exhibit hall
We can provide table clothes, access to electrical outlets and other logistical support as needed!
11:15am-1:00pm: Girls walk around & visit tables during their lunch break
1:00pm: Break down tables & clean up
Sample Table Activities
👩🏾🔬 Most Popular Pick! Engage in enthusiastic conversations with girls about STEM jobs
🙋🏽♀️ Offer simple trivia games related to your field as a way for girls to learn more
📸 Make a “photo booth” with props from your field for girls to interact with & take pictures
🖋 Give away items like pens, brochures, etc.
Recent Career Fair Partners
California American Water
Central Coast Fab Lab
Chevron
Elkhorn Slough
Enza Zaden
Hartnell Astronomy Department
Hartnell MESA Program
Math & Origami
MIIS MetaLab
Monterey County Sheriff's Coroner's Office
Monterey Institute for Research in Astronomy (MIRA)
Monterey Salinas Transit (MST)
NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy
Renewed Mobility Physical Therapy
Sanchez Lab Science—UCSC Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Seeds4STEM
SPCA
Transportation Agency for Monterey County and WTS San Francisco chapter.
Ventana Wilderness Alliance
Ventana Wildlife Society
Whitson Engineers