Girls: Sign Up For Career Conference

The registration deadline for the “Expanding Your Horizons” Math and Science Careers Conference on March 23 has been extended to the day of the conference.

Organizers want to make sure every young woman interested in the career workshop gets a chance to attend, so the deadline was pushed back. The conference, from 8:30 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. at Spokane Falls Community College, enlists successful women role models - surgeons, pilots, engineers and more - to tell of their professions and discuss the importance of math and science education.

The conference fee is $10, which includes lunch and all materials. Girls planning to register at the door should be at SFCC by 8 a.m. Or, see your school’s math teachers or counselors for a registration brochure, or call 245-3518.

More girl news: Girls Incorporated is a national youth organization dedicated to helping every girl become strong, smart and bold. For the past four months, the organization has been running a national campaign for 33 million girls and their families to rid TV of gender stereotypes.

Girls Recast TV is a long-term media literacy and advocacy project with the goal of giving girls a platform to tell the TV industry what they like and don’t like about its portrayal of females.

The campaign’s free “Action Kit” is loaded with information about how to watch TV with a gender-sensitive eye.

It has phone numbers and addresses of those who control media content along with strategy ideas for communicating with them.

Order the kit from Girls Inc., at 441 W. Michigan St. Indianapolis, IN 46202; phone (317) 634-7546; E-mail HN3580(at)handsnet.org.

Any donkeys out there?

The Young Democrats of Washington is holding its annual convention March 29-31 in Seattle.

Interested in attending?

Call (206) 932-7549 for more information and registration information.

If anyone knows anything about a young Republicans conference, let us know.

You’re feeling sleepy

The DECA chapters from Lewis and Clark and Rogers high schools are bringing back hypnotist Jim Wand to Spokane for another fund-raising performance.

The master of the mind will be at the LC gymnasium at 7 p.m. Monday.

Tickets will be sold at the door for $6.