Expanding Your Horizons is an annual conference aimed to interest girls, aged 11 to 16, in science, math, and engineering. Participants attend talks, participate in hands-on workshops, and meet with women scientists and engineers. Group activities are designed to introduce the participants to other like-minded girls who are considering careers in science. Debby Tran and Melisa Tallis served as mentors at this year’s conference.

Link to Conference: http://www.eyhsandiego.org/index.htm

Fellow UWIP members, Melisa Tallis and Debby Tran, posing with the ACSSA club from UCSD at this year’s Expand Your Horizon’s Conference which was held at USD.

• GradWISE is holding conference featuring the top women in STEM fields talking about their experiences, their advice, and open for asking questions. The event is primarily online where people can stream it for free, but the UCSD gradWISE group will be having a viewing party. If you cannot make it, you can always stream at home, just make sure you register on the link below.
• Free registration here:   http://www.eventbrite.com/e/take-the-lead-live-stream-viewing-hosted-by-gradwise-tickets-10417754785
• Link to the UCSD GradWISE event and to see whose speaking: http://gradwise.ucsd.edu/pdf/TTL2.pdf

On February 20, UWIP hosted a talk with UCSD Professor Vivek Sharma on the search for the Higgs boson particle. Professor Sharma is an experimental particle physicist who is currently involved in the search for the Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. By smashing ultra-energetic protons and examining the resulting sub-atomic debris, he attempts to understand the fundamental constituents of this universe. After the talk, UWIP members had an opportunity to interact with professor Sharma at a personal level at Regent’s Pizza.

Link to Sharma’s research here: http://vsharma.ucsd.edu