Tech Trek Camp
Tech Trek is a week-long residential math/science camp for girls. All AAUW branches sponsor campers in their area. Del Mar Leucadia Branch campers attend Tech Trek at the California University of San Diego campus.Each camper must be recommended by a teacher. Final selection of campers is done by the local AAUW Branch. Campers selected are girls completing the 7th grade in the spring of each year.The goal of Tech Trek is to provide a fun yet educational experience that will expand the minds of the middle-school age girls who attend, allow campers to experience hands-on experiments and field trips related to math and science, live on a college campus, get acquainted with other girls who think science is fun, and meet female role models in math, science, technology and other non-traditional careers.
Below: 2009 Tech Trek campers
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Photo above - standing left to right: Rachel Terry, Sachiko Matsumoto, Catherine Nguyen; in front: Grace Anne Furnari and Courtney Chaplin.
These five 8th-grade students attended the September 12 meeting of AAUW Del Mar-Leucadia to tell about their experience at Tech Trek, a week-long math and science camp for girls at the University of California San Diego campus.
Below: 2008 Tech Trek girls
Below: Three of the 2006 Tech Trek girls who spoke to AAUW members at our Annual Membership Luncheon!
