SIU to host enjoyable, hands-on STEM careers convention for grades 5-9

An Expanding Your Horizons participant enjoys the Saffron Scientific Histology Services Lab with longtime workshop chief Maureen Doran on the small enterprise incubator in Dunn-Richmond Economic Development Center. (Photo offered)

October 13, 2025

SIU to host enjoyable, hands-on STEM careers convention for grades 5-9

by Kim Rendfeld

CARBONDALE, Ill. – Girls and boys in grades 5-9 can have enjoyable exploring careers in science, know-how, engineering, math and extra through the annual Expanding Your Horizons conference at Southern Illinois University Carbondale on Saturday, Nov. 1.

EYH will run from 9:15 a.m. to 2 p.m. on the SIU Student Center and different areas on campus. Students can have the chance to take part in workshops providing hands-on actions equivalent to making and testing packages to guard eggs from a excessive drop, “piloting” a flight simulator, viewing microbes by means of a microscope and extra.

Workshops will embody such matters as aviation, geology, chemistry, psychology, arithmetic, engineering and know-how, and drugs. An entire record for the 2025 convention shall be posted on the EYH website nearer to the occasion.

Because professionals will donate their time to steer workshops offering optimistic experiences with math and science, individuals will work together with function fashions who’re lively in math- and science-related careers.

Organizers hope many individuals attend the occasion, together with lecturers and oldsters from all through Southern Illinois.

Registration is now open. The value, which incorporates lunch, is $10 if college students register by Oct. 17, $17 after that date. Registration closes at 11:59 p.m. Oct. 28. For extra data, go to the EYH website, e mail [email protected] or name 618-453-5302.