Every year, volunteers at Cornell University hold the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference, a one day conference that encourages students in grades 7-9 from across New York state to pursue STEM education. The conference attempts to provide a variety of hands-on demonstrations, tours, and other engaging activities designed to stimulate the imagination of these young students. As is typical, the Cornell ACS local section helped to sponsor this program, which assists in paying for transportation, workshop materials, etc.
We have been informed that this conference was an incredible success this year, with ~250 participating students (~30% being students of color), 31 different workshops, 22 laboratory tours, and 13 scientific demonstrations for the participants to engage in.
The Cornell ACS is proud to have helped sponsor this event, and to continue to do so, and would encourage anyone interested to reach out to EYH for information on donating, volunteering, or otherwise becoming involved in years to come (https://www.eyh.cornell.edu/index.php).
