Our annual Girls Lead the Way conference is a full day of interactive learning designed to introduce high school girls in grades 9-12 to engineering and applied mathematics concepts and the Mines campus.
The day begins with the girls and their parents attending a welcome and introduction to the event, followed by a majors panel and an admissions panel where women from Mines speak about their respective majors and answer questions. After the panel, girls are broken into smaller groups according to their interest in majors and attend their first of three hour-long, lab-based activity stations hosted by Mines faculty and students. We will then give an hour for a lunch break. To close out the conference, girls can take an optional campus tour with Mines Ambassadors.
The hands-on sessions are overwhelmingly the most impactful part of the day, and make participants more aware of the wide variety of majors and careers available. Participants report feeling more confident in their abilities to pursue their passions in STEM.
Girls Lead the Way prepares participants to:
- Articulate different majors at Mines and their application to a variety of industries
- Demonstrate their interest in STEM with continued involvement in related coursework, interests, and extracurricular activities
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