Email for more information or to participate: SCVAAUW.TechTrek@gmail.com

Visit the Official AAUW California Tech Trek Website at

Tech Trek is a California AAUW activity that offers 7 th grade girls a one-week residential math, science, and technology summer camp on a university campus. It provides a fun and supportive environment for girls to explore and expand their interests in these areas, with hands-on activities, projects, and field trips led by experienced teachers and guest presenters. AAUW programs like Tech Trek Science Camp for Girls are changing the status quo across the country. Connecting young women with like minded peers and mentors has a powerful effect on the lives and career choices of future generations. In fact survey results of girls who had participated show that AAUW Tech Trek had been the most influential personal or academic experience of their middle school years. An overwhelming 96% of our Tech Trek girls are currently enrolled in college, and all credit Tech Trek for encouraging interest and increasing confidence in their ability to succeed in math and science areas.


   

The impact of this camp can best be conveyed through the comments of girls who have attended:

“Tech Trek wasn't just a stepping stone along the path of my life, for me it was more like a bridge.”  

“I thought I was alone in the subjects and things that interested me. Given the opportunity to attend Tech Trek showed me that I wasn’t alone. It allowed me to be more comfortable with myself and to be proud about who I am as an individual.”

“Tech Trek Science Camp was especially important to me because as the child of an underprivileged family, I have had very few opportunities to learn in such a hands-on fashion and with such vibrant instructors as well as students.”

A final evaluation leaves no doubt of the enormous influence of this program:

“I left Tech Trek with a spirit and attitude of self confidence. But it was more than just self confidence, I held within me a firm knowledge of knowing I can make it! No matter where I go, who I’m with, or what I am doing, I can and will succeed. To this day, I face every situation in my life like I faced the first day of camp….Tech Trek taught me many things, but above all Tech Trek taught me to try! Attempt, endeavor, conquer, seize, make the most of, make an effort, take a crack at, have a go, TRY!”  

May 2011– Tech Trek  

At a congratulatory tea, the AAUW SCV Branch honored the 19 young women they had chosen from Santa Clarita area junior high schools to attend the 2011 Tech Trek Science Camp for girls. The honorees were nominated by their math and science teachers, wrote essays and participated in interviews conducted by the AAUW Tech Trek Committee to determine scholarship recipients. The girls will attend either Whittier College, Cal State Fresno, University of California at Santa Barbara and UC Irvine..



2011 Tech Trek Winners

AAUW thanks the many members and volunteers who contributed to the event and to the following for their support for the 2011 Tech Trek program:

Thank you to our 2012 donors

Donors Sponsoring
More Than One Tech Trek Participant
Drs. Kamal and Shama Gandhi
Kaiser Permanent
Women’s Network – Employee Resource Group,
Boston Scientific Neuromodulation
Mr. Jim Sweeney, Esterline – TA Aerospace
Donors Sponsoring
One Tech Trek Participant
Mr. Ed Bayless, Bayless Engineering and Manufacturing
Ms. Gina McDonald, Law Office of Gina McDonald
Ms. Lynda Rick
Dr. Dianne Van Hook, SC Community College District
Donors Sponsoring
More Than One-Half of a Tech Trek Participant
Dr. Eugene Dorio
Drs. Ram and Marian Subbarao
Mr. Michael D. Antonovich, LA County Supervisor
TriSept Corporation

Tech Trek Donors
Mr. Todd Strickland, Canyon Engineering Products
Ms. Louise Schultz
Ms. Diane Kreyenhagen
Dr. Joy Aaron, Valencia Veterinary
Ms. RoseMarie Romeka
Valencia Gynecological Associates
Mr. Joe Messina, Messina and Associates
Ms. Linda Hart
Chip Meyers, The Chip, Inc.
Drs. R. Allen and Kelly Smudde
Ms. Kelly and Mr. Vernon Burke
Ms. MJ, Mr. David and Ms. Jenny West
Mr. Richard Patterson, Owen, Patterson, and Owen
Valencia Pediatrics