Registration Open for Career Day for Girls

Registration is now open for the 40th annual Career Day for Girls, which will be held Saturday, Feb. 26, at Northwestern University’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Each year, more than 300 Chicago-area middle school and high school girls attend the career workshop, designed to encourage young women to consider engineering in their education and career choices. The program will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston.

View a story on last year’s Career Day for Girls.

Highlights include an engineering design competition, laboratory tours, hands-on experiments, a goal-setting workshop focusing on different engineering majors, and separate panel discussions for students and parents. Participants will have an opportunity to meet current women engineering students, faculty and alumnae throughout the day.

Registration will close Feb. 11 but could close earlier if capacity is reached before that date. A nominal fee of $5 is charged per person to cover lunch and printed materials.

For more information and a registration form, go to the event website.

Career Day has been held at Northwestern annually since 1970, when only 4 percent of the students in the McCormick School were women. Today, nearly one-third of McCormick students are women.