Virtual “Camp” 2022

At our Sept 10th meeting, this years campers presented to us their “wearable tech” projects and reflected on their personal experiences. Here are the links to view this years presentations

To view the our branch campers’ short presentations please follow this link:
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To view the coaches videos, please follow this link, follow this link:
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Virtual “Camp” 2021

Tech Trek again followed the successful “virtual” camp format put together last year. At our Sept 18th meeting, the girls will be presenting to us in-person the experiences they had.  Here is a link to videos of this year’s Poway Penasquitos branch participants hat presentations.

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Virtual “Camp” 2020

With the cancellation of this years traditional Tech Trek camp, creative minds rose to the challenge and put together a “virtual” camp. The “virtual” camp offered to 40 girls selected to attend Tech Teck at UCSD this year was a great success. The August 3-7, 2020 online camp, called “STEMinists Making Change”, taught the girls robotics and coding. They each created personalized hats with pieces that moved and lights that flashed.

After camp was over, we delivered gift bags to each of the seven girls that we had selected in March for Tech Trek 2020. In each gift bag was a book called Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World, a Tech Trek t-shirt, and a hand-written card encouraging these girls to stay motivated to pursue STEM careers.

Dr Mary Isaac (the director of the cancelled UCSD Camp), AAUW, and Qualcomm worked together to create this one-week alternative camp. We don’t know yet what will happen with next year’s Tech Trek camp, but we are pleased to know that this online alternative camp can be offered again next year, if necessary.

The girls selected to attend this year’s Robotics Camp, via Zoom, each made short videos of themselves presenting their hats, all with moving parts and flashing lights. They gave this presentation on their last day of camp on August 7th.

The three girls, Nichole, Tanvi, and Kiara,  selected from our branch were all part of the morning session. Their presentations are at the following times on the video: Nichole’s starts at 17 min 48 sec. Tanvi is at ~ 54 min and she is followed by Kiara.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OIkpwxBRJJUtBv6Kzrp-HXgop5dYu6TN/view?usp=sharing