IMPORTANT News About the Tech Trek 2023 STEM Camp
This June there will be two in person Tech Trek camps for girls who will be entering the 8th grade in the fall. The first camp, Sunday June 11th to Saturday the 17th, will be at Stetson University in Deland, Florida. The second camp, held Sunday June 18th until Saturday 24th, will be at Florida Atlantic University in Jupiter. There will be 48 girls at each camp. They will live in campus dorms, eat their meals in the student cafeteria, use the University classrooms and labs for their core classes and workshops. The core classes and workshops at the camps will be similar but not identical. The girls selected to attend one of the camps were notified by Saturday March 25th.
Core Courses at the Florida Atlantic University Camp
The descriptions for the Core Courses are available on the 2023 Tech Trek Camp page
Qualcomm Wearable Tech
Structural Engineering
Neuroscience
Marine Biology
Workshops at the Florida Atlantic University Camp
The descriptions and schedule for the Workshops are available on the 2023 Tech Trek Camp page
Rube Goldbergs Galore!, Microbit Adventures, Chemistry is Fun, How a Bullet Journal Can Be Your BEST Life Hack! How?, Nature Based Science Apps, Conservation/Archery, Flip Grid Fun in Action, Ozobot Obstacle Course – Challenge Accepted, Makey- Makey, Music!, Genome Editing, Drone Search and Rescue Mission, and Energy 101-Empower Yourself!!
Core Courses at Stetson University Camp
The descriptions for the Core Courses are available on the 2023 Tech Trek Camp page
Qualcomm Thinkabit Lab
Marine Science
Environmental Science
The Fantastic Dynamics of Flight
Workshops at the Stetson University Camp
The descriptions and schedule for the Workshops are available on the 2023 Tech Trek Camp page.
Adaptation Stations, Passive Solar Houses. Solar Cookin’, Solar Panel Engineering, Robots in Action, Fly Lab, Flip Grid, Heart Valve Replication Lab, and Can We Solve it?
If you would like to see the presentation about the 2022 Camp , go to https://flipgrid.com/5e3992b4.
Federal income tax-deductible contributions for the two 2023 camps may be mailed to Tech Trek, c/o AAUW Florida Supporting Foundation, Inc, PO Box 2938, Jupiter, FL 33468. Checks must be made payable to the AAUW Florida Supporting Foundation, Inc. with Tech Trek noted on the memo line.
Camp History
AAUW has been a leader in the effort to interest more young girls in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The first summer Tech Trek camp was held on the campus of California’s Stanford University in 1998. Now there are ten California camps and ten additional camps scattered around the United States. Thanks to very generous sponsors and supportive donors, families pay only a $50 fee to send a girl to camp so that girls from a wide range of backgrounds are able to attend.