Subject: Expanding Your Horizons
volunteers needed!
Hello, Sociology
Students! The Womens’ Studies Department at UTA is
preparing for their annual Expanding Your Horizons program on Saturday morning,
November 6. We need volunteers to help the presenters and to guide the
girls to their workshops.
Expanding Your Horizons is a program that gives professional
women who work in the fields of math and science an opportunity to teach a
workshop and be a role model to girls in the 6th – 8th
grades from all over the Metroplex. The goal is to encourage girls to
pursue math and science in their studies.
Dr. Dana Austin and I (Suzanne Baldon) both give workshops
in Anthropology. Dr. Austin teaches the girls how to perform several
elements of crime scene investigation, for example, determining whether bones
are from a human hand or the paw of a bear, reading and matching footprints and
tire tracks, seeing the difference between male and female pelvis bones.
I teach them how to make a clay reconstruction of facial
appearance on a skull model. I need at least 5 volunteers who will work
with the girls at each of 5 workstations and help them to follow my directions
for creating the features (for example, skin, eyeballs, mouths, noses, ears) on
the skull model. There will be two workshops of 55 minutes each and the
volunteers will have the chance to use what they have learned in the first
workshop to help in the second. It’s actually very easy and a lot
of fun!
If you’d like to volunteer to help in any way, please
contact our Sociology Teaching Assistant, Ky Nguyen at [log in to unmask] or extension
2-3792. She has volunteered to coordinate the volunteers for Expanding
Your Horizons this year. If you’d like to help me with the
“Goosebumps – The Case of the Missing Face” workshop, please
specify that preference to Ky!
Thank you!
Suzanne Baldon J
Secretary and Lecturer
817-272-2661