ISSUED: 26 September 2017
MEDIA CONTACT: Valerie Owens
SHEPHERDSTOWN, WV — Registration is still open for the fourth annual Seeding Your Future Conference for middle school-age girls, which will take place on Saturday, October 14, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Shepherd University. Seeding Your Future is free and open to girls in grades 5-8 who are interested in learning more about science, technology, engineering, and math.
New to this year’s conference are the Build a Brain Workshop, where students will build a brain with Play-Dough; ID that Tree, where students will learn to identify various trees; Smells Kitchen, where they will make fall smells and learn what compounds make up those smells; and Mapping and Inhabiting Mars, where they will use geographic information system technology to learn about the planet. Other popular workshops from previsous years will also be offered.
Registrants are asked to sign up for Seeding Your Future by Friday, September 29. For more information, visit https://seedingyourfuture.weebly.com/.
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