The annual conference is designed to increase girls interest in math, science and engineering and increase their awareness of career opportunities for women in these fields.
Media coverage is welcome.
Carr Agyapong of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund will present the keynote address at 9 a.m. in Talley Student Center s Stewart Theatre. It is organized by The Science House at NC State. Workshop presenters and panel discussion participants come from NC State, UNC-Chapel Hill, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, SAS Institute Inc., Nortel, and many other local research institutions. To help reporters identify good opportunities for visuals and feature interviews, campus maps and detailed schedules of events will be available on March 13 in the second-floor lobby of Talley Student Center.