Each year, the women of LRS Web Solutions have the pleasure of presenting at the Expand Your Horizons Conference at the University of Illinois here in Springfield. This event is geared towards junior high girls and encourages them to look towards careers in math, science, technology & engineering. As a young girl of that age, I can remember wondering when I would ever use the algebra my teachers were drilling into my head... turns out I use it every day in my career. You need to know math to be a programmer. So what this conference does is show girls how fun these subjects can be someday... and exactly how they will use them if they choose a career in "________".
The event is broken up into multiple workshops and the girls can attend 3 workshops through-out the day. Our workshop is based on teaching the girls entry-level html & css by creating their own photo gallery. By the end of our session, each girl will have a link to their personal gallery and will be able to upload images well after the conference. They can also share their gallery on facebook (which is what every pre-teen wants anyway, right?).
For a little show-and-tell, the fun women on my panel, along with my son, who happened to be with me at work one day, made the following galleries. For a good laugh, please click on the images below so you can see each in it's entirety. Note: if you are using IE, you will need to right click on the active-x warning and allow content.
Expand Your Horizons is this Saturday. If you know a junior high school girl who needs a little inspiration in the math & science department, sign her up here.
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Cassandra Pence is a Site Construction Specialist for LRS Web Solutions. She majored in Computer Science at the University of Illinois & then went on to receive a Masters of Science in Animation at Depaul University in Chicago.
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