Workshop Leader Information
Many of the girls have requested to learn more about their workshop leaders over the
years, so we have provided a script. It is just a basic layout of what the girls would like to know about you. We would
Workshop Leader Information
Many of the girls have requested to learn more about their workshop leaders over the
years, so we have provided a script. It is just a basic layout of what the girls would like to know about you. We would
really like each workshop leader to have a copy of this script.
*Goals of EYH*
- Allow young women to investigate science & math careers
- Offer the opportunity to talk with women role models in science and math careers
- Have girls participate in hands-on activities related to science and/or math
- Meet other young ladies interested in math and science
- Promote math and science as possible career choices for girls!
*Tips for Workshop Leaders*
- PRACTICE THE WORKSHOP. Be sure everything works as expected. Be sure you have enough
time for your introduction, your activities, and questions. No one likes to be rushed.
- Set up enough equipment, stations, or work area so that there are not more than two
to four girls in any one group. If there are too many girls, you will find that some
will just sit back and watch with a bored look on their faces.
- Try to have the young women work in teams. Though too many girls results in detachment,
one girl by herself may experience a problem but be hesitant to ask the leader for
- There are two typical layouts for hands-on workshops. One where there are several
different but related activities to do and the young women rotate through each station
spending 10 to 15 minutes on each. The other has one activity with two or more phases
and the young women stay working on that activity for the entire time. In both, be
sure you stop periodically to explain now things that they have seen and to answer
- Don't give the girls the answers to all their questions right away. Let them work
it out. Help them through logically. But don't over-do this, it can get frustrating.
- To make sessions the BEST possible, we have put together some suggestions that may
help you organize yourself and your workshop session.
- Before you begin your workshop:
* Meet the adult "mentors" escorting each group of girls
*Ask them to keep you on schedule by providing a sign when you have 5 minutes or
so left in your session.
- As you begin:
*Introduce yourself and explain why you chose your career
*Describe how you pursued your career
*Tell about your educational background and the most useful subjects in school
*Describe your typical "day" at work
- Make it HANDS-ON & INTERACTIVE (call for suggestions on this, if necessary). Try to
have some "lecture", some hands-on or investigative, and maybe even small group work
on a cooperative question or problem. Some ways to do this are below:
- Encourage students to be active- using pencil and paper or other materials.
*i.e. Have the ladies do a short (15 questions or less) true/false "QUIZ". Have them
take it before you begin, and they must find the answers within your "lecture" session
* Do a "scavenger hunt" with questions/items that relate to your topic. Each girl
can have a copy and they must talk to others and sign their name on the blank beside
the question/item. They must know the answer to or meet the description of, in order
to sign their name.
- Group: Have girls divide into small groups and work cooperatively on a project (all
related to your topic).
- Or answer a problem
- Or question
- Role play
- Do a simulation
- A game of some type
- Question students: become aware of a need or a problem, or accept a challenge
- Invent: have girls plan and design alternative ways to address a challenge
- Evaluate: girls test/modify their original design, or a design that you have given
them OR they evaluate a product, design, etc. given to them
*Unclear on what "hands-on" or 'interactive' activities are*
A health care presenter might 1) introduce themselves 2) give background information
on themselves 3) introduce a topic related to healthcare & give information 4) work
with girls on how to do one or more of the following health care related activities
in pairs/groups (this is in no way a complete list of activities that could be done!):
- Take blood pressure
- Listen to heart via stethoscope
- Splint a broken limb or apply bandages
- Measure lung capacity, relate to sports, health (asthma), etc.
- Administer medication i.e. Give an orange a "shot"!
- Practice steps for emergency medical procedures
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