The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is seeking high school student Workshop Assistants for Girls for STEM, an annual hands-on STEM conference for 7th and 8th grade girls in New York City and Westchester County to explore careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
AAUW has been proudly bringing this conference to our area since 2003, first in partnership with Barnard College, and now with the
University of Mount Saint Vincent. This year's Workshop Leaders include female professors, scientists, and researchers from Cornell University, NYU, SUNY, Lehman College, Estée Lauder, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and more.
Workshop Assistants will assist with greeting and registering the girls, eating breakfast with them, guiding them to the correct rooms for their workshops, assisting the Workshop Leaders, and guiding the girls to lunch. You will then have the chance to meet and network with Workshop Leaders and mystery women at a special lunch.
This year's workshops include:
Brain Games with Siobhán Lawless, B.S., M.S., PhD Candidate, Molly Leitner, PhD Candidate, and Riley Morrone, PhD Candidate, Neural and Behavioral Science, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Put on your thinking cap and learn to make a model brain cell while learning about all the mind-boggling things a brain can do from recognizing words and colors, to making memories, to controlling your movements. At the end of the session, students will learn to dissect a brain.
DNA LAB with Paola Bardetti, PhD, Industry Assistant Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering
DNA is what makes you – you! DNA is the basic building block of life. Extract DNA and see what it looks like and learn about genes and genetics in the process.
Hands-on Cosmetic Chemistry with Anna Czarnota, Associate Fellow R&D, Advanced Technologies, Estee Lauder Companies
Step into the laboratory and make your own potion!
How popular is your name? with Elin Waring, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Lehman College
Using real data on all children born in the US we will explore your name, how popular it is today and whether it was more or less popular in the past. We will compare your name to others and explore whether celebrity names and names from movies become more or less popular.
Make your own website! with Sammi Caby, BSE, Senior Software Engineer
Girls will learn the basics of making a website: Getting text on a page, styling it, and making it interactive.
Medical Laboratory Science with Eloise Aita, PhD, President New York State Clinical Lab Association, and Camille McKay, Regional Pathology Manager, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Come and learn some of the science behind medical diagnosis. Medical Laboratory Scientists perform tests on blood and other patient samples that help determine whether someone is healthy or sick. Learn about how these scientists identify diseases like cancer, heart disease, and infection.
A Colorful Tour of the World of Graphs with Renee Bell, PhD, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Lehman College, CUNY
Which doodles can you draw without picking up your pencil or retracing? How can you color a map so no two neighboring countries are the same color? How can you seat family at dinner so that people who were arguing don’t have to share a table? In this workshop, you will learn the simple but elegant mathematical idea that allows you to solve these problems and will give you a new way of looking at lots of images and problems in your daily life.
