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This innovative Dutchess Community College program, now in its 16th year, introduces girls to opportunities in historically male-dominated fields. The program is open to girls in fifth through eighth grades; there is a $10 registration fee and online preregistration is required.

The program offers hands-on workshops in science, technology, engineering and math developed by DCC faculty and designed to engage young women and encourage them to explore career opportunities in those fields . Students can be actively involved in hands-on experiments, discovering the worlds of geometry, biology, chemistry, physics, and more.

There are 16 different workshops in all, each lasting 50 minutes. Students select their first three workshops on a first-come, first-served basis during online registration. All the girls will be together for the concluding hour, which will feature door prizes and an address by pediatrician Dr. Suzanne Cutler, on “How Far Have Women Come? (or not)”.

Participating faculty come from the DCC Departments of Mathematics, Physical and Computer Sciences, Engineering, Allied Health and Biological Sciences and Performing, Visual Arts and Communications.

The program includes four optional workshops for parents. Parent workshops are free and pre-registration is not required.

Check-in will take place at 8:15 a.m. in the North Cafeteria in Drumlin Hall.

Click on the links at left to view schedules and workshop descriptions, and to register. Space is limited; early registration is recommended. The registration fee of $10 for the entire morning is payable online by credit or debit card. 

• Due to room capacities and fire regulations, adults will not be permitted to accompany students into the workshops.
• Event check-in is scheduled between 8:15 am and 8:45 am in Drumlin Hall cafeteria on the DCC main campus. Parking is available in Lot D off Cottage Road.  Follow signs from there to the check-in location at the North Cafeteria in Drumlin Hall. A campus map can be found at http://www.sunydutchess.edu/assets/DCCVisitorGuide09.pdf
• If students are being dropped off, they must be picked up by 1 p.m. at the morning check-in location, the North Cafeteria.

For more information, contact Tony Zito at (845) 431-8545 or zito@sunydutchess.edu.

This program is presented with support from TEG Federal Credit Union.