Tomorrow I volunteered to represent my company at an event for 6th-12th grade women at Skyline College called “Expanding Your Horizons.” Basically, we’ll be showing young women what a career in Emergency Medicine is like.  We’ll be running mock calls and answering questions.  I’m really looking forward to it!  Here’s the event description from its website:

In this career conference, you will meet women who use science and math in their careers as well as women in non-traditional careers. These outstanding women are eager to share their career paths with you, to answer your questions, and to encourage you to go for it! During the workshops, you will see for yourself some of the things these women do on the job. You will also learn about promising career opportunities and the training you need to qualify for them.

After ‘Expanding Your Horizons’ girls say:

•”This conference helped me see other options for what I can do once I’m out of school.”

•”Now, I definitely know what I want to be. Thanks!”

•”It made me start to think about my future.”

Expanding Your Horizons is a conference for 6th through 12th grade young women to learn about career opportunities in math and science. Science and math careers are fun, exciting, and rewarding and so is Expanding Your Horizons. Conference participants conduct lab experiments, wire high-tech phone systems, examine microscopic creatures, and design their own computer software. Each girl attends three hands-on workshops during the all-day conference. During the day, the girls participate in a problems and puzzles contest. Contest winners recieve A Day With a Scientist. Expanding Your Horizons has been held at Skyline College annually since 1980. Over 20,000 young women have attended. Expanding Your Horizons is sponsored by the Genentech Foundation for Biomedical Sciences. During the conference, Skyline students escort participants to their sessions. A smaller concurrent program is held for interested adults. The Expanding Your Horizons Planning committee are volunteers who work in science- and math-related fields.

Looks exciting, right?  I can’t wait!

In other news, on Sunday Earl and I are heading up for a day trip to ski at Squaw, and then on Monday I have my FIRST COMPANY TEAM SOFTBALL GAME!!!!!  whooooooo :D   Bring it on, baby!  Very, very, very psyched for that.  Combined with the beautiful spring weather, it looks to be a fantastic couple of days.