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Tech Trek math/science camp is designed to encourage rising eighth-grade girls to persist with their excitement about science, technology, engineering and math through high school, college, and into their careers. The program features numerous hands-on activities as well as a chance for the girls to make friends with other girls interested in STEM and to meet professional women in STEM fields. At the reception, the girls shared that it was a very special experience to bond with "like-minded girls" who love science and math and to see their future in a variety of possible STEM careers.
In the opening motivational presentation, retired judge LaDoris Cordell encouraged the girls to stand up and speak out for their values: to be "upstanders" rather than "bystanders." Core classes included computer coding and cyber sleuthing, marine biology, CSI forensics, and engineering motion. The girls also took apart computers, wrote computer code, built mouse-trap and balloon cars, solved problems using DNA code, measured vitamin C in chemistry lab, and attended field trips to a marsh, VMWare, the Stanford blood lab, Google, and Stanford Bing Acoustical Concert Hall. They also met numerous professional women scientists and engineers.
Upcoming AAUW-OML Restaurant Walk and Shredding Fundraisers
The Walnut Creek Restaurant Walk is scheduled from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 3, with over 20 restaurants providing food. Tickets are $30. Send your check made out to AAUW-OML Community Outreach Fund by Sept. 26 to Jan Cushman, 143 Meadow View Road, Orinda 94563 (jancushman@comcast.net).
Bring your papers to be securely shredded at the Shred Fest 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14 at 5A Rent-A-Space, 455 Moraga Road, Moraga. Cost: $7 per file box.
The American Association of University Women, empowering women since 1881, was the first organization to provide educational scholarships for women. See the OML-AAUW website for more information: http://oml-ca.aauw.net/tech-trek/
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