Posted 8:40 a.m. Monday, July 6, 2009

Eighty middle-school girls from the La Crosse area and across the state, as well as one from New York and one from California, were on campus June 27-28 for the 11th annual Girls in Science weekend.
The workshop included hands-on workshops taught by a UW-L faculty and college student teaching assistants. Each girl took two of the following workshops:
- Art and Music ... and Math! taught by Karl Kattchee, mathematics
- Crime Scene Investigation: The Case of Jason Worth taught by Faye Ellis, biology
- Movie Production Through Computer Programming taught by Kenny Hunt, computer science
- Shards of the Past: Experimental Archaeology taught by Connie Arzigian, archaeology
- The Wonderful World of Plankton taught by Eric Strauss, biology
- Rockets taught by Eric Barnes, physics; and Will It Float? taught by Jon Hasenbank, mathematics.
- Catch a Flying Car taught by Susan Kelly, mathematics
- Food is Fuel and Munch, Munch More taught by Peg Maher, biology
- Mrs. Jones’s Kidney Problem taught by Bernadette Taylor-Winfrey, microbiology
- The Universe in Invisible Light taught by Shauna Sallmen, physics
- You GO Girl! taught by Rebecca Battista, exercise and sports medicine