Nora Minor, an 8th grader from Elizabethtown, and Sarah Redmon, a Senior at Western Kentucky University, launch a rocket at the GEMS (Girls in Engineering, Math, and Science) conference on Saturday. Minor participated in a workshop at the conference where she was given the opportunity to construct a rocket, launch it, and graph the results. The purpose of the conference was to encourage young girls in science, and give them a creative and informal environment to experiment and learn.