EXCITEMENT! JULY 13-19, 2025 CAMP AT PACIFIC LUTHERAN UNIV/PLU
2024 CAMP 2024 WAS FANTASTIC!
Tech Trek is designed around STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) to increase interest, excitement and self-confidence in young women who will enter the eighth grade in the fall. It features hands-on learning and focusing on current hot topics for career exploration. The six-night sleep away camp is located on a college campus using dorms, laboratories, recreation and dining facilities. Read more about camp history and more…
How effective is this education? Research and reports of the results of Tech Trek on students…
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- Field trips
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- Laboratory
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- Physics
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- Astronomy
Tech Trek introduces young women to local successful female STEM professionals, teaches them that their intellectual skills will grow over time, and demonstrates that it is possible to break traditional female career stereotypes.
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- Engineering
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- Project teamwork
AAUW branches in Washington state recruit campers and raise the funds to support all their camp expenses (over $1600 per camper) with the exception of a $50 family registration fee. Branches work with seventh-grade math and science teachers from middle schools to nominate young women interested in STEM. Once nominated, the students enter the process of selection by submitting an application and essay and meeting branch members during a personal interview.
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- Meet professional women
This camp model has operated in Washington for many years and over 1500 campers have attended the camp with sponsorship from local AAUW branches. The program requires more than $200,000 annually to operate and we are funded by individuals, companies, corporations, foundations, and service organizations. CLICK here to find out how to help this camp continue to succeed and provide future STEM leaders.
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- technology
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- biology
Questions? techtrek@aauw-wa.org