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The Tau Beta Pi Association
Chapter: California Phi
Project number: 1
Chapter Project Report

INSTRUCTIONS: Please complete each of the seven sections below either in the space provided or by attaching additional sheets and using the items below as an index. If sheets are added, please use the Roman numerals to identify the section and Arabic for pages within a section (III-2 is the second page of Organization and Administration). Any additional information which may be helpful to another chapter would also be appreciated, but do not send extraneous material that would not be useful to other chapters. Please type or print clearly using dark ink.
Project name: Expanding Your Horizons
Date(s) of Project: September 30, 1995 Target Audience: Sixth through 12th grade young women
Number of persons who participated in this project.
Members: 10
Melinda Bautista, Tana Cicero, Dr. Hamernik, Kevin Long, Lief O'Donnell, Dr. Panico, Dr. Schroeder, Dr. Stark, Heather Watson, Nicole Zvara
Candidates/Electees: 3
Terry Fletcher, Jason Mancini, Karen Scott
Hours spent on this project. Organizing: 1 hour Participating: 12 hours
DESCRIPTION OR INDEX TO ATTACHED DESCRIPTION:

I. General Description:
Expanding Your Horizons is a conference to expose sixth through twelfth grade young women to exciting aspects of science, math and engineering. The conference brought about 500 young women to the UOP campus for a day of workshops and a disaster simulation. Tau Bates assisted with workshop setup, traffic control, facilities, and clean-up.

II. Purpose & Relationship to Objectives of TBPi:
This conference provided general education and encouragement to young women in the community to pursue careers in fields of science and engineering.

III. Organization & Administration: in conjunction with another group? Yes
The event is coordinated annually by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Education Outreach. The main campus sponsor of the event was the Society of Women Engineers.

IV. Cost & Personnel Requirements:
No cost was incurred to Tau Beta Pi. All members and candidates were asked to volunteer their time.

V. Special Problems:
There were no special problems, other than the fact that a wedding reception of 300 attendees took place on a lawn in the middle of the conference.

VI. Over-all Evaluation/Results (Be specific):
The conference went very well, although it was subject to the general logistics problems that any conference of that size would experience. Tau Bates ended up acting as the message service when the cellular phone network went down just as the mock disaster was beginning.

VII. Index of Exhibits: