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| NOTE FROM RACHEL |
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Winter is winding down, and spring is in the air! March brings with it the promise of new life, and there's no better place in Austin to dream of new beginnings than Girlstart! This month, we will show nearly 100 area girls the door to a promising future at our 8th annual Take a Girl to College Day. Girls are treated to a whirlwind adventure while they visit UT classes, participate in engineering labs, make friends with current students, tour the dorms, and have lunch alongside other college students at the dorm cafeteria. The day culminates in a moving moment: the girls make an official pledge to return as real college students. It's a day full of inspiring new experiences and new ideas! Where Take a Girl to College Day leaves off, our new Expanding Your Horizons conference begins! Girlstart's one day conference introduces girls to the career opportunities awaiting them. Girls spend an action packed day sampling a variety of careers from veterinary science to aeronautics. Each career is presented in a hands on, mind blowing, full force format. Expanding Your Horizons will show girls a brand new way to see the power of math, science, engineering and technology! So as the redbuds and bluebonnets begin to appear this month, be reminded that at Girlstart, exciting futures are bursting into bloom too! 
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| GIRLSTART EVENTS AND NEWS |
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Expanding Your Horizons is Almost Full!Registration for the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference on March 25 is in full swing and is almost sold out! EYH workshops are offered in six distinct tracks including “Designer Girl” and “School of Rock," presenting girls in the 6th through 8th grades with unique opportunities to learn about the careers that await them in math, science and technology! Join us for a day of hands on career exploration at the University of Texas! Expanding Your Horizons is generously sponsored by Cisco Systems, KTBC-Fox 7, Grande, Intel, Applied Materials, Maxwell, Locke & Ritter, and UPS. Summer Camp Discount Ends in March! Register early for Girlstart Summer Camp 2006 and receive a $25 discount! Summer camp themes for 2006 include Making the Video, Dream Spaces, You're the Boss, and Hermione's Adventures at Girlstart for girls entering the 4th through 8th grades in the fall! Hurry, the discount ends on March 17! Find out how your company can become a sponsor for Summer Camp by contacting Milissa Tivnan at 916-4775. Celebration of Families 2006 April 1, 2006 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Palmer Events Center Join Girlstart at the Celebration of Families Annual Festival for Parents and Children, coordinated by FamilyConnections every spring! This event features resources for families, positive parent education with lively workshops, and entertainment for the whole family. Fun activities are offered for children and nurturing care for infant and toddlers is provided during the free event. |
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Expanding Your Horizons is almost here! Please join us as a general volunteer for the day assisting with the event!
We couldn't put the conference together without the core volunteers from Applied Materials' Women's Professional Development Network. We'd like to thank the team members, especially Deb Wilson, for their diligence in every aspect of the planning---from monitoring the quality of the workshops to managing the flow of the conference. Girlstart appreciates you! |
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| A TEACHER'S STORY |
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Irene Morales is the Student Advocate Counselor and a teacher at Westview Middle School, one of the five schools that hosts Girlstart's Aiming for Algebra program. Irene has been a campus coordinator with Girlstart since 1999 and continues to support Club Girlstart. Irene's daughter participated in Girlstart when she was in the 7th grade and Irene attributes much of her daughter's success in math and science to Girlstart. When asked why she supports Girlstart, Irene says, "I've always believed in girls and I have a very strong commitment to making the world better for girls. The world has been a good place for males for a long time, and I believe we can make it better for females too."Irene's dedication includes Girlstart and beyond - by starting Mana Sisters, a club for girls at Westview, Irene makes sure to continue her support of girl's empowerment! |
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| DONOR HIGHLIGHTS |
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Club Girlstart students will attend Take a Girl to College Day, sponsored in part by ExxonMobil. ExxonMobil has been a supporter of the Take a Girl to College Day program for the past several years. "We at ExxonMobil consider inspiring these young women to pursue higher education an investment in our own future," says spokesperson Sara K. Tays. "These are the girls that will be our scientists and engineers of tomorrow!" Thank you to ExxonMobil for your ongoing support of Girlstart! Girlstart is made possible by a grant through the National Science Foundation. Girlstart's after-school programs are funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation and Intel. The Girlstart Digital Detectives program is supported by the Texas Education Agency. Saturday camps are funded by AMD and the Sooch Foundation; and our Baty Elementary after school program is sponsored by AMD. The Girlstart Technology Center is underwritten by Janet Harman, Jeff and Gail Kodosky, Nav Sooch, KLE Foundation, Betsy Blair and Jim Van Winkle, AMD, Austin Community Foundation, the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, and National Instruments. Girlstart's 2005 Summer Camps were made possible by generous grants from Dell, Seawell Elam Foundation, Applied Materials and the Alice Kleberg Reynolds Foundation. Scholarships for campers were made possible by the Silverton Foundation, Freescale, Wells Fargo, the Strake Foundation, the Chaparral Women's Club, employees of Motion Computing, the LCRA Employees' United Charities, and numerous individual donors. Underwriting for 2006 Summer Camps is provided by Dell and the Sooch Foundation. The Sooch Foundation is also generously sponsoring a research study on Girlstart alumnae. We are pleased to have the support of Cisco Systems, Applied Materials, Intel, UPS and numerous individuals in presenting Girlstart’s first Expanding Your Horizons event. Girlstart would also like to thank the Webber Family Foundation and ExxonMobil for their support. For their generous donation of goods and services, we would like to thank Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr, P.C., Fox 7, IBM and Cupidz Clozet. Girlstart gives girls the tools they need to be leaders of their generation. Help a girl change the world. Give to Girlstart now! |
