Make a body map and take a self-inventory to discover how you view yourself and discuss how it relates to your self worth and self-esteem.

Presenter: AIDS Services of Austin

Want to be the leading lady of your own life but feel like a damsel in distress when you look in the mirror? Why do we think we have to look a certain way? What do magazines and movies tell us about our looks? This interactive theatre-based workshop will explore how media affects us and what we can do to change it.

Presenter: Theatre Action Project

We ALL go through difficult situations. Hear the story of an amazing woman who is battling an incurable, life-threatening illnesses and how it has made her a new person. Learn 5 inspirational tips to help you overcome daily challenges and teach you to never give up!

Presenter: Sol2Soul

Enjoy watching the Tyra show, but have ideas of your own? Latinitas hosts a hands-on lesson in producing a TV show dedicated to girl issues. Come be a host or work behind the scenes on Girl TV!

Presenter: Latinitas

This workshop helps girls learn the value of self-expression through words. High school girls lead middle school participants through a fun writing exercise. Writing and sharing their poetry will show girls that writing can be a medium for confronting false stereotypes, connecting with themselves, and learning about each other.

Presenter: GENaustin

Ideas form lasting impressions or “mental tattoos” in parts of our mind. During this session you will learn how to really change your mind and our life with mental impression.

Presenter: Mind Tamers

Girls are hit with media messages about beauty, success and sexuality everywhere – from their phones to teen magazines. Latinitas presents hands-on lesson in altering images in media for girls and how girls, themselves, can change media to reflect more real-girl images.

Presenter: Latinitas

Girls will learn about the effects media can have on their self-image and how to take action and change the way media portrays women. Participants will increase their awareness and ability to critically deconstruct media messages that are sent to young girls. They will learn to look at advertising with a critical eye and separate the realistic from the unrealistic.

Presenter: GENaustin

Love food. Hate food. Let's get real about the basics of being healthy with a healing diet. Perfection is not required for healthy habits! Don’t confuse a focus on health with an obsession to be thin.

Presenter: Deirdre Earls, MBA, RD, LD

When you look in the mirror, what do you see? How is your perception of yourself influenced by the images and people around you? During this session take a deeper look at the root of these issues to learn how to wade through the mess of the media.

Presenter: Sol2Soul

Girls will explore the unrealistic ideal image of beauty portrayed in the media and will explore the parts of themselves (both physical and non-physical) that makes themselves beautiful.

Presenter: GENaustin

Let’s talk about what magazines and television are telling us about beauty and how the images you see aren’t real. Get a reality check on the real you and how beautiful you really are.

Presenter: GENaustin

In this interactive presentation youth will examine cyber bullying at their schools and learn about the ways it's detrimental to the school environment. The presenters believe in empowering bystanders of bullying to put a stop to it.

Presenter: Texas School Safety Center

This session will focus on the importance of staying safe on the internet as teenage girls become more dependent on the computer and cell phones for daily interaction. We will discuss cyber bullying, sexting, and how to stay safe and educated online. We will look at real cases of cyber bullying/sexting and how to avoid common pitfalls.

Presenter: Ann Richards School

Not sure what you should do when you’re fighting with your friends? Do you ever wonder how you should handle a hard situation with your enemies? Enhance your relationships and find what you have in common with those you dislike through discussing aggression, feuding, cliques and mean girls. Step outside your box and view others in a positive way.

Presenter: GENaustin

From the bully to the bullied, these workshops are essential to create conversation and awareness. In a safe environment, girls are led through topics that discuss relational aggression, intolerance and feuding, mean girls and cliques. This workshop is very relevant to the relational aggression occurring in our schools today. Through interactive videos and discussion and interpersonal exercises, our workshop asks girls to step outside the box they have created for themselves and view others in a positive way.

Presenter: GENaustin

The world of the Internet can be scary and tough to navigate, especially as a young person. There's no denying you know more about technology than your parents, teachers and adults, but are you being safe and smart? In this interactive presentation you will examine your online actions and learn ways you can be safe online. Be empowered to make good decisions about managing your online reputation.

Presenter: Texas School Safety Center

What is bullying? Where does the power lie? How can we address this challenging issue? Learn different ways to address bullying in your life.

Presenter: Big Brothers, Big Sisters

Come with your friends, fans, and favorites b/c we need a new status update! Be savvy and safe online. Let's do some cool theatre and art activities to explore how to protect yourself and your reputation.

Presenter: Theatre Action Project

Explore computer science programming and learn how to make your own mini-game! Increase confidence in programming with the career Women in Technology from IBM.

Presenter: IBM's Women in Technology

In this session you get to be a part of your very own engineering design team!
Work together on a bridge construction project within a specific budget and schedule.

Presenter: IBM's Women in Technology

Young women are invited to participate in a seminar on community radio practices. Attendees will hear examples of studio work by other young women, they will be introduced to some common concepts and techniques used in the production of news and public affairs programming, and be given the opportunity to use field recording equipment to create an audio project suitable for broadcast.

Presenter: Youth Spin Radio-KOOP

High school is a time for first jobs and college plans. But, step one is making a resume.
Latinitas guides teens through creating their resume and also how to post it online.

Presenter: Latinitas

This unique workshop features a panel of real high school students who will answer questions middle school girls have about high school. This workshop will serve a safe space for girls to ask questions about the upcoming high school experience without fear of punishment or judgment; only panelists, young female moderators, and middle school attendees will be allowed to participate. Panelists are high school students who work as clubGEN Leaders, and are trained in girls’ issues so they will be able to provide accurate, helpful information. Young female members of GENaustin will moderate the session to ensure that only appropriate information is communicated.

Presenter: GENaustin

Come check out some amazing demonstrations using physics principles - an interesting and fun way to learn about physics and science.

Presenter: IBM's Women in Technology

Using the Lego Mindstorms kit come learn how to program robots to do simple tasks! Learn more about computer science and engineering.

Presenter: IBM's Women in Technology

During this fun and hands on workshop you will design and construct a new roller coaster ride by connecting foam pipe with toothpicks and by taping it to chairs, tables, and walls to form loops, hills, and curves. Girls will get to test the safety and effectiveness of their ride by letting a marble represent the roller coaster car roll down the track! Discover the engineering and CREATIVITY needed to design a roller coaster.

Presenter: Girl Start

Learn how to be confident from the classroom to the boardroom. During this session you will discuss the unique assets and strengths that girls bring to the table. Through games and hands-on activities you will look at the attitudes we have towards guys and our behavior around them you can learn to navigate the workplace with no sweat!

Presenter: Young Women's Alliance

Have you ever wanted to ask an embarrassing or troubling question but couldn’t? Here is your chance. This unique workshop features a panel of young women who will answer any questions high school girls have. This will be a safe space for girls to ask all their questions about life without fear of punishment or judgment; only panelists and high school attendees will be allowed to participate. Panelists are trained in girls’ issues so they will be able to provide accurate, helpful information as well being able to relate personal stories and observations. The panel is comprised solely of college students and recent college grads, which high school girls will be able to relate to and communicate with openly.

Presenter: GENaustin

Have you ever wondered what High School is really like? Have you ever wanted to ask someone real questions that worry you? Here is your chance. This unique workshop features a panel of high school girls who will answer your questions. This workshop will serve as a safe space for middle school girls to ask questions about the upcoming high school experience without fear of punishment or judgment; only panelists, young female moderators, and middle school attendees will be allowed to participate. Panelists are high school students who work as clubGEN Leaders, and are trained in girls’ issues so they will be able to provide accurate, helpful information. Young female members of GENaustin will moderate the session to ensure that only appropriate information is communicated.

Presenter: GENaustin

This unique workshop features a panel of real young women/college students who will answer any questions high school girls have. This workshop will serve a safe space for girls to ask all their questions about the upcoming stage of life without fear of punishment or judgment; only panelists and high school attendees will be allowed to participate. Panelists are trained in girls’ issues so they will be able to provide accurate, helpful information. The panel is comprised solely of college students and recent college grads, whom high school girls will be able to relate to and communicate openly with.

Presenter: GENaustin

What do colleges want to know? What is so special about me, high school teens wonder.
Everything! Latinitas helps teens put on paper what college admissions offices want to know.

Presenter: Latinitas

Want to stand out in the crowd and make a great impression on the job hunt? During this workshop learn what employers are watching for during an interview and the things they don’t tell you in school about basic workplace etiquette. You will walk out of this workshop and rock out at your next interview!

Presenter: Texas Wall Street Women

Take a fun look at how you can use your money to become financially free! Play a game and see for yourself how you can have money work for you, so you don’t have to work for money! Now that’s something worth learning about! Curriculum approved by the Texas Education Agency.

Presenter: The Money Academy

Community Challenge brings together five high school students and five adult professionals to form a squad of ten that promotes healthy lifestyles for themselves, their friends, families, colleagues and the community. Learn how these squads work together by organizing regular healthy activities/events, completing a health focused community service project, blogging online and building a social network who is also invited to participate. Learn how you too can have an active lifestyle and change your community!

Presenter: Active Life

This workshop helps girls learn the value of self-expression through words. High school girls lead middle school participants through a fun writing exercise. Writing and sharing their poetry will show girls that writing can be a medium for confronting false stereotypes, connecting with themselves, and learning about each other.

Presenter: GENaustin

“If all you’re told to be is a good girl, how do you grow up to be a great woman?” Girls today, more than ever, need guidance, not placation. They’re savvy, cosmopolitan and smart and they are who we count on to rise to the top. Everyday, we work to make women’s leadership in all sectors a reality…and our girls will be the ones to enter the doors we open, fill the spots we create. Attend the workshop to learn 18 new ways girls can stand out in the crowd…a primer on growing into a great woman.

Presenter: Project 19

Women and girls represent 70% of the world’s poorest people. Did you know girls can play an important role in the global fight against poverty? Come learn how!

Presenter: Care

Get your thinking cap on and pens ready! Grrls will be given several writing prompts and asked to write about a variety of topics concerning their lives. By taking an excerpt from each grrls writing and craft a short performance piece as a group will be presented!

Presenter: Grrl Action, a program of Rude Mechanicals

Discover what type of leader you are and how your leadership style can empower you and others to take action to make your world a better place!

Presenter: Girl Scouts

It is important for girls to ROCK and to know where rock comes from, along with hip hop, dance, country, R&B, blues, pop, jazz, and many other forms of popular music from around the world. We consider the diverse contributions women and girls have made to popular music, as well as an acknowledgement that those contributions may be informed by different identity politics, instrumental backgrounds, and industrial interests. In this workshop, we will consider female contributions to popular music from the mid-twentieth century to the present, in the hopes that girls recognize the value of this history and their roles in shaping it.

Presenter: Girls Rock! Austin

Surviving the teen years is tough. One day you love your body; the next day you hate your body. From looking in the mirror to trying to be you it’s hard to know how to love yourself and your body. During this fun and interactive session learn how to love yourself and your body!

Presenter: Planned Parenthood

Because it’s not enough to know what happens during puberty, this session is intended to teach girls how to keep an adult body healthy, clean, and free of infection with fun hands-on activities.

Presenter: Planned Parenthood

Board breaking is a lot like dealing with life's problems: In order to get past an obstacle, you must go through it. It also is often true that most of us cannot solve our greatest problems and issues without the help of another. In this session participants will not only learn the basics of board breaking, but how to use this martial arts practice to break through obstacles in their lives.

Presenter: Tao Texas

This session focuses on the consequences that result from the choices teens make about alcohol.

Presenter: Travis County Attorney's Underage Drinking Prevention Program

Yoga can help you during frustrating times in your life: from anxiety over a fight with a friend to being overwhelmed with schoolwork. Yoga practice can help you learn to find a better body image and really be happy with yourself just as you are. In this workshop yoga will teach you how to see your beauty, face your imperfections and accept the differences in your relationships.

Presenter: YogaRX

A yoga practice just for you! During this session we will focus on strengthening the body, finding our power and confidence, and self-acceptance.

Presenter: Dawn Light Yoga

Explore, identify and tap into your many moods by embracing your unique creative self, artistically, with style and a whole lot of fun! Come for art, drawing, poetry, writing, and lots of laughs! All levels are welcome – we’re all artists and deserve to be heard!

Presenter: Moody Me Workshops by Elizabeth Decker

Participants will be guided through an interactive Hoop Discovery Workshop and learn about the fun new fitness craze “Hooping” - hula-hooping with heavier, larger hoops.

Laura will share her story of body / spirit transformation through her 5 year hoop practice and teach the basics of waist hooping, turns, partnering, and simple tricks. The workshop will provide a basic hoop class, activities, games -- Girls will discover radiance, power, strength, focus, safe space, body awareness, balance, and FUN through Hooping.

Presenter: HOOPcircle

Interested in writing but don’t know where to start? Join this workshop to get introduced to useful writing techniques and take away a hand-bound document of your work!

Presenter: Belinda Acosta

¿En ocasiones sienten que sus hijos se comunican con ustedes a puro gritos? Y ustedes como se comunican con ellos? A gritos también? En este taller aprenderemos maneras efectivas en como comunicarse sanamente entre familia y no pasarla de grito en grito.

Presenter: Con Mi Madre

Discussion in small and in large groups, short computer presentation on current trends in substance use among youth, activities, jeopardy board game, role plays.

Presenter: Lifeworks

During this session learn awareness and risk assessment, express confident body language, set boundaries, create peace, escape from grabs and fight back effectively for safety!

Presenter: Sun Dragon

It is important to know the dangers of modern-day distractions and how to defend yourself in scary situations. During this workshop with Sense*Speak*Act you will learn to listen to your instincts and establish firm boundaries. You will walk away knowing how to de-escalate potential conflict and what to do to be safe!

Presenter: Tao Texas

During this physically focused self-defense class, you will practice effective hand strikes, powerful kicks and learn what parts of the body's "soft zones” to target to defend yourself.

Presenter: Tao Texas

Is it important to wear sunscreen? What’s the difference between SPF 10, 15, 45, 80? Learn how different strength sunscreen protections affect color changing and check out what the sun can really do to your skin.

Presenter: Girlstart

Relax and renew. Reconnect with who you are and tap into your needs and desires. Learn how to integrate physical, emotional, spiritual and mental self-care into your everyday life. Based on the exciting new book from Trudeau, "The Mother's Guide to Self-Renewal: How to Reclaim, Rejuvenate and Re-Balance Your Life," this session will give you the opportunity to:

~ Learn about the transformative power of self care and why it's your best friend
~ Get in touch with your needs and practice some exercises to help you feel more focused, clear and creative
~ Hear self-renewal ideas and strategies from other women

"Self care is not about self-indulgence, it's about self-preservation." Audrey Lorde

Presenter: Renee Trudeau & Associated

An important part of becoming an adult is thinking about your personal values and beliefs. To help you find what is important to you this workshop will take you through a series of poetry and art projects and you will write a personal statement for yourself – a life mantra!

Presenter: Morning Star Rising Youth Empowerment Program

Youth educators will give an interactive presentation about underage alcohol use in Texas. Learn about the physical effects, the social and legal consequences of drinking, and brainstorm ways in which youth can make healthier decisions about alcohol.

Presenter: Youth Launch - Youth Partnership for Change

During this workshop you will play games, laugh and learn new yoga moves that will help you relax and feel good about yourself!

Presenter: Dawn Light Yoga

Is it true love if the person you're going out with is jealous? What if your crush texts you non-stop? Come check out the interactive performances by the Changing Lives Youth Theatre Ensemble to see what going out is really about!

Presenter: Theatre Action Project

It's time for a movie!
Come check out Barb's DVD: The Wisdom of Girls: Teens, Sex & Truth. Let's talk about how to connect your self-worth to your sexual choices.

Presenter: Barb Steinberg

During this workshop learn to listen with your whole being – one of the greatest gifts we can give!

Presenter: Mind Tamers

We are all constantly working on building and maintaining healthy, effective, and lasting relationships. Through activities and discussion this session will provide girls with tools to form healthy relationships, and to improve existing relationships.

Presenter: GENaustin

Listening with your whole being is one of the greatest gifts you can give to another. Learn how to listen completely in this workshop.

Presenter: Mind Tamers

Take an inside look at your relationships and explore how to make them work.

Presenter: Safe Place

Did you know that the way you speak and move shows people how confident you are? Come and learn the behaviors that will help you overcome challenges and show up like a winner.

Presenter: Patricia Kirkland

Learn how to tell if your friendships or dating relationships are healthy. Practice talking with a boyfriend or girlfriend or friend about the tough stuff - what you want and need, what you are OK with and what you are not OK with.

Presenter: Lifeworks

He said, she said?! There’s nothing more confusing than relationships. In this session you will have an opportunity to explore values we have about relationships and how to identify characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships.

Presenter: Youth Launch - No Kidding: Straight Talk from Teen Parents

Do you know the costs of involved in teen parenting? Come talk with a few teen parents and learn what it is really like.

Presenter: Youth Launch - No Kidding: Straight Talk from Teen Parents

Did you know that the way you speak affects how others hear you? Come and learn how to speak in a way that your parents will listen. Practice effective communication strategies.

Presenter: Patricia Kirkland