New activities initiated in the past year include Math, Science, and Engineering Badge Days for Girl Scouts and Brownies; Energy Education Workshops for middle school girls; electronic mentoring services for undergraduate and graduate students; and rotating departmental lunches for female faculty, staff, and students. WIEP also launched a $4 million capital campaign to provide a stable source of income for operating expenses and enhanced its contacts with industry through a restructured Corporate Advisory Board.

"The changes in the program can truly be called revolutionary," said Dean Ross Corotis. "The WIEP has significantly expanded its activities, focusing on our current students, but also introducing programs for faculty and staff. It also has brought exciting new programs to young women in secondary and even primary schools."

For example, 60 seventh- and eighth-grade girls and about 20 adults attended two Energy Education Workshops in the summer of 1999. The workshops introduced the girls, along with their parents, teachers, and counselors, to engineering and science concepts through everyday energy usage. The girls generated human power by pedaling a bicycle, tapped wind power by constructing wind turbines, and used solar power to bake goodies in a solar oven, among other activities. www.colorado.edu/engineering/WIEP