Skyline College-Expanding Your Horizons

1. C.S.I. San Bruno: Murder in the produce aisle.Interview and fingerprint the suspect then analyze his DNA to solve this crime.Katrina Cheung, Camille Espiritu, Denice Sy, and Casey Fortier. Skyline College Phi Theta Kappa.

2. Micropipetting. Experience Forensic Science. Investigate how to use the micropipette, the tool of forensic scientists. KimMarie Hansen, Shalini Prasad, and Jacob Ferris, Cañada College.

3. Dress for Success in Biotech. Join Skyline Bioreplications, our biotech company. Dress like a biotechnician and work in our company. Please bring your camera or phone to show everyone the work that you do in our biotech company. Alena Weers and Nick Kapp. Skyline College.

4. How to cash in on proteins. It has been said that DNA is the flash but proteins earn the cash in biotechnology. In this session girls will use hands-on activities to isolate some protein as well as learn how this class of molecule is the driving force of revenue for biotech. Anna-Marie Vargas, Jose Sanchez, and Afra Nabaggala. Skyline College AMSA group.

5. What are the limits of your memory? How well can you remember seven colors in order? Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs? Names? If you were to see five shooting stars, can you track where they fall? Will talking on your cell phone affect your performance? We'll explore how your mind remembers colors, faces, and moving objects. Jennifer Nguyen, Gloria Andrews, Mary Lou Flores, Steven Dominguez, Jon Jovi Bodestyne, Arthur Mandap, and Jed Calano. Skyline College.

6. Be A Disease Detective. How do the disease detectives track an outbreak of swine flu, West Nile, and other diseases? Create and track an epidemic in this workshop. Jenna Wilkin, Chelsea Bendebel, Megan Dones, and Evelina Vu. Skyline College.

7. The wonderful world of plankton and whales. Learn and investigate why plankton are important in the marine ecosystem. In addition you will learn about whales that are common on the California Coast. Genievive del Mundo and Steve Kieler. Skyline College.

8. What's in Your Drinking Water? What makes your drinking water taste? What makes it safe? Look for living creatures in your water and build a working water filtration system. Irene Yim, Morgan Davis, and Rochelle Beverage. Skyline College.

9. Shoot it, Work it, Drop it! Shoot some hoops with your non-dominant hand. Easy? Can you add two pounds? How high can your knees go? How many squats does it take to feel the burn? Let's find out how much you can do before your muscles give out! Elizabeth Williams, Vanessa Villegas, Henry Viray, and Miguel Torres. Skyline College.

10. Sea Animals And Pollution—What happens when they mix? Effects of pollution from household waste on sea urchin fertilization. We will look at live sea urchin sperm and eggs. Carla DiGennaro and Genievive del Mundo. Skyline College.

11. Root Beer, Cheese, and a Kiss. Learn how to work a microscope and discover bacteria. Learn how to gram stain bacteria, and look at pond water magnified 1000×. We will also see how microbes play an important role in food production by making root beer! Kylin Johnson, Virginia Plume, Kate Harrison, and Matt Stryczek. Skyline College.

12. Look Deep into My Eyes. Look inside your friend's eyeball with an ophthalmoscope. How sharp is your eyesight? Are you color blind? Where is your blind spot? How do your eyes help you other senses? Can you see the difference between potato and apple cubes? Can you balance on one leg? Sandra Hsu. Skyline College.

13. Plant Plants or Eat Plants? Exploring Ways to Reduce our Carbon Footprints. Explore the science behind popular personal solutions to climate change. Briana McCarthy and Anjana Richards. Skyline College.

Physical Sciences

14. Expanding Oceans. Global Climate change will effect everyone. Using models, we'll discover its effects on our coast and why we should care. Mayra Rivas. Aquarium of the Bay.

15. CSI: Chemistry Scene Investigation. Who vandalized the classroom? What evidence do you have to support your conclusions? Who was the culprit? Use column chromatography—a separation to determine who was the culprit. Carmen Velez. Skyline College.

16. SOS: Save Our Shells! Ocean acidification, a phenomenon related to global climate change, is becoming a major threat to marine ecosystems ranging from coral reefs to the Antarctic. Observe and investigate the mechanisms driving ocean acidification. Rebecca Belloso. Skyline College.

17. The Scientist in the Kitchen: Molecular Gastronomy. Scientific process of cooking. Learn the culinary process of spherification: the shaping of liquids into spherical edible treats! Ashley Good, Benjamin Angulo, Morvarid Tavassoli, and Roxanne Diaz. Stanford University.

18. Cover Girl Chemists. Find out how science is used to make our every day products—like lip gloss! Simple chemistry experiments can lead to cool cosmetics, including moisturizing lip balm! Monica Morales, Tammy Tran, Julia Stumpf, Amber Anderson, Madison Smith, and Lauren Choy. University of San Francisco.

19. Chemistry Magic Show. Learn the secrets behind the world's most famous magic tricks. Nancy Ruis, Riana Mesias, Raya Mesias, Daffne Gonzales, Michael Whealey, Collette Yee, Lisa Razon, and Rene Mercado. Skyline College.

20. Life in a Vacuum. Explore the world at low pressures. Janice McOmber. Skyline College.

Engineering & Math

21. Let there be Light. Light is all around you, but how much do you really know about how light is created? You probably are in the dark about the language used to describe light and laser optics. What happens when you turn on a lamp or a flashlight? How are these things powered and how do they actually work? In this workshop you'll learn more about the field known as LED lighting and you'll learn how optics affect light, direction, and color. Participants will get a chance to build their own flashlights. By the end of this workshop, you'll see the light! Jan Sumerel and Laura Stark. Rambus Inc.

22. Let me tell you a secret. Keeping personal information confidential is much harder now that the internet exists. Your personal information is important and you should only share it with whom you want and when you want. Many individuals are interested in stealing your personal information for their own personal use. In this workshop you'll learn more about the data encryption process for keeping personal and business data secure. You'll learn the basics of what secure communication means and how to protect your information. You'll also have the chance to create your own encrypted message to share only with your BFF. Liji Gopalakrishnan and Laura Stark. Rambus Inc.

23. Rock Stars! Girls will learn how 100-pound climbers can move 200-pound loads of food, water, and equipment up multi-day bigwall climbs. Melissa Michelitsch, Kate Robertson, and Sonya Dickenson. Skyline College.

24. Love at First Byte. Write a computer program in BASIC! Debug (fix) an adventure game program. Play and modify other games on the computer. Adrienne Jardetzky.

25. Building a Green Home. What are the elements that go into designing and building a green home? In small groups, you will have the chance to experiment with different designs in constructing a 3D model that showcases at least one green feature. Lindsey Virdeh and Sandy Wallenstein. Skyline College.

26. Girls On The Mic! Explore the careers of Recording Engineers, Music Producers, Live Sound Reinforcement Engineers, foley artists, and more. Learn to record music, operate a public address system, and use a digital audio workstation to record and edit voice and sound effects for a short cartoon. We are all about making some noise! Hillary Burkman, Jenny Thornburg, Noelle Duncan, Laura Dean, and Sinclair Riley. Women's Audio Mission.

27. ET Phone Home. What is a satellite? Learn how satellites are used in everyday life…TV, phone, internet, and more! We'll hold a contest to see who can build and bling the best satellite model. Neetha Iyer. Space Systems Loral.

28. How to Perform Magic Tricks (that involve math). Come learn how to perform and amaze audiences with magic tricks that are based on math. Nancy Blachman. Math Delights.

29. Math Academy. Did you ever want to learn the SHORT CUTS in math? How to make statistics understandable? How to do arithmetic really easy? Why is algebra so weird? These questions will be solved for you and in between problems…you might realize that "math is not as hard as my friends say it is"!!!!! Pat Deamer, Pauline Wethington, Janine Jantoc, Anitra Busby, Shamika Wilson, and Claudia Valle. Skyline College.

30. Math in Real Life–Stock Market Trading. Have you ever wondered what the stock market is and how it works? Come and learn how to read stock charts, pick good stocks, buy and sell stocks and see if you made or lost money on your investment. Melanie Swan. MS Futures Group.

31. High Octane—Women in the Automotive Industry. Learn more about careers in the Automotive Industry and have fun in this hands on workshop with real cars! Julia Johnson and the Heart Wrenchers. Skyline College Automotive Technology.

Medicine & Allied Health

32. That Back Could Have a Crack: Keeping the Spine In-line. Package a trauma patient for transport using C-collars, backboards, straps, and head beds. Yvonne Malloy. Skyline College EMT.

33. Blood…good for vampires, good for you! Not just for feeding vampires…blood is a highway for your immune system. Learn about what is in blood, and how your immune system works. Jennifer Lilla. Skyline College.

34. Project Airway. An up-close and personal look into the career of respiratory therapy. Nothing else matters if you cannot breathe! Learn what it means to be a vital part of the health care system. Rhia Angeles, Crystal Diaz, Hanaa Hammoudeh, and Marianne Lam. Skyline College Respiratory Therapy.

35. Cavities Gone Wild: Science of Tooth Decay. Look at the microorganisms that live in your mouth and find out how to take better care of your teeth. Anna Dneprov, DDS and Tricia Doukas, DDS. Lewis Specker Jr., D.D.S., Inc.

36. May the Chi be with you. Learn about an energy system in the body that can be tapped into to both diagnose and treat imbalances or pain in the body. This energy system was used for thousands of years in the East and is being used now in hospitals by licensed acupuncturists. Roshelle Leva. Kaiser Permenente.

37. Eye Can See! What happens when the light becomes dimmer? Does the color of a jellybean change your taste? Walking needs focus but what happens when you're dizzy, distracted, or being tickled? How good are your eyes…really? Lauren Lucio, Hans Monsanto, Steven Keller, Janae Medina, and Joanne Lam. Skyline College.

38. Smile Power! How do dentists create comfortable and beautiful winning smiles? Explore the exciting science behind how to enhance people's lives by restoring function and esthetics through dentistry. Tanya Manyak, DDS and Linda Yip, DDS. Tanya Manyak, D.D.S.

39. Food for Thought. Learn how the food you eat can affect your health. See how food and nutrition are linked to heart disease, diabetes, and other diseases. Sandra Frojelin, Anne Hamilton, Lisa Roberts, Candice Nguyen, Ashley Binger, Maria Kalinina, Alexandra Jaeger, Michelle Ribotta, Madison Meeds, and Jennifer Wong. San Francisco State University.

40. Scrub-in for Surgery. After a brief description of what happens in an O.R. and who works there, put on a surgeon's gown and gloves to tour our O.R.! Alice Erskine, Skyline College.

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Life Skills

41. Girl Power! Inspiring girls to embrace their dreams and to set the right goals to achieve them. Dream Big! Even better than that, achieve your dreams by setting attainable goals and focusing your vision to make your dreams a reality. You'll leave this workshop with an artistic Vision Board of your own creation that can be a daily reminder of what you want and how to get it. Rachael Sage. School-to-School International.

42. Feathering Your Nest with Flair. Learn about careers in Interior Design during this hands-on workshop. Work with materials that upgrade your space while increasing functionality. Learn how strong math skills are at the heart of strong design. Linda Burroughs. Design Solutions.

43. Improving your…What do you call it?…Memory. Fun ways to test short term memory. We will use color patterns, letters in random order and sentence fragments, while distracting you with jack hammer noises. Develop better memorization skills with computer games. Antonina Fillari, Cynthia Hickey, Eugene Cheung, and Jorsen Baysac. Skyline College.

Program for Adults

NOTE TO ADULTS: Workshop presenters have made special efforts to provide exciting and informative presentations for the students. Adults may not attend these student sessions. A concurrent program for adults has been arranged and is described below.

44. Choosing a college. An overview of California higher education provides information to help you determine the right choice for your family. Riana Mesias, Ashley Good, and Benjamin Angulo. Skyline College/Stanford University.

45. Creating Color Continuity. People are generally surprised to know that color is the single most important element in transforming a space and it is the least expensive. Join us in defining the 12 steps to transforming your living space on a budget. Bring photos of your "problem" area and let's get started! Linda Burroughs. Design Solutions.

46. Financing Education. An overview of the financial aid process along with information on the different types of aid that are available at the collegiate level. Jocelyn Vila, Program Services Coordinator, Skyline College Office of Financial Aid.