GIRLS GET TASTE OF SCIENCE PROFESSIONALS LEAD WORKSHOPS.Byline: Sonia Giordani Staff Writer VAN NUYS - Autumn Van Dusen wants to study bugs as an entomologist. Maya Foos plans to build homes and skyscrapers as an architect. And Shirley Eshaghian dreams of finding a cure for cancer when she becomes an oncologist. The teen-age girls were among the more than 200 San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. students to attend Saturday's Brighter Horizons program, which brought professional women to lead a series of hands-on workshops to encourage girls to consider careers in science, math and technology. ``Some of these girls have taken science classes and just need that extra push to continue taking science,'' said Sharon Schuster, chairwoman of the American Association American Association refers to one of the following professional baseball leagues:
The university is adjacent to Grant High School. Often called "Valley College" or simply "Valley" by those who frequent the campus, it opened its doors to the public on September 12, 1949, at which time the campus was . Students spent the day testing out aerodynamic theory with paper airplanes, studying entomology entomology, study of insects, an arthropod class that comprises about 900,000 known species, representing about three fourths of all the classified animal species. up close with bugs and learning about careers in molecular biology molecular biology, scientific study of the molecular basis of life processes, including cellular respiration, excretion, and reproduction. The term molecular biology was coined in 1938 by Warren Weaver, then director of the natural sciences program at the Rockefeller , veterinary medicine veterinary medicine, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of animals. An early interest in animal diseases is found in ancient Greek writings on medicine. Veterinary medicine began to achieve the stature of a science with the organization of the first school in the and math. ``It gives you an opportunity to see your choices,'' said Amanda Hasson, a seventh-grader at Gaspar de Portola Middle School in Tarzana. ``I'd like to be a doctor maybe - but I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if I want to go to school for all those extra years.'' Robin Bruder, a freshman at the Cleveland Humanities Magnet at Grover Cleveland High School Grover Cleveland High School or Cleveland High School is the name of several public high schools in the United States, named for President Grover Cleveland, except as noted below:
``You get exposed to various fields. And it's helpful to get the chance to speak with someone who has already been there - especially from women,'' said Bruder, who may follow in her father's footsteps in engineering. Roberta Gleiter, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. with the Global Institute for Technology and Engineering, co-led one workshop on engineering. ``I don't want any other young women to go through what I went through to get into engineering,'' said Gleiter, a North Hollywood resident. ``I had schools tell me, `We don't accept women - we don't have bathrooms for you.''' ``I hope they'll get an understanding that engineering is fun and it's exciting - and, to boot, they might understand some of the concepts of why planes fly and have some technical literacy just by sitting here in this class,'' she said. Volunteer Jacqueline Spoehel urged the young girls to always persevere. ``I hope they're inspired to go into the sciences and to explore things they love and continue with their passion,'' said Spoehel, who works as an ecologist with the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District and volunteered to lead a workshop Saturday on bugs. She said she was about 8 years old when her mom took her to a program led by an entomologist in Placerita Canyon. ``We looked under rocks. They showed us different insects - the trapdoor spiders. They showed us the miracle of nature and it inspired us. It inspired me,'' she said. Saturday's event was the first year the San Fernando Valley branch of the AAUW AAUW abbr. American Association of University Women held the event on its own. In the previous four, it teamed up with the Ventura County chapter. ``But we felt that there were certainly enough students in the San Fernando Valley to do our own,'' Schuster said. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2) Merria Iaccino launches a paper airplane during an airplanes and theory of flight session Saturday at the Brighter Horizon science fair at Valley College. In photo at left, Monica Leon, Autumn Van Dusen and Dana Dios observe ants. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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