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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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| 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.
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