The Lyceum of Monterey County

Expanding Your Horizons: Leading a Workshop

Share your STEM knowledge & experience by leading a 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.

✅ 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!

EYH Girls learn underwater robotics

✅ 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 $50 Amazon gift card for workshop leaders

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.