About Tech Trek:  Tech Trek is a summer residential camp for local girls entering 8th grade.  It started in 1998 with an Educational Foundation Community Action Grant for one California college campus (Stanford) and now the program has expanded to camps on five campuses.  Qualified female, middle school science and math teachers are hired to teach the "campers" hands-on classes.  Courses include: robotics, women in math, marine biology, microbiology, solar energy, and DNA extraction.  In addition, the  "campers"  attend presentations by experts on these subjects and go on related field trips to labs.

Activities: 
Ice Cream socials are held annually at the Daisy Hill mobile home park.  The purpose is for the girls chosen by the 5 SLO County AAUW Branches to attend Tech Trek and their families to all meet one another in preparation for the shared Tech Trek adventure. Tech trekkers from previous years are also invited to share their experiences.  Parents talk about their girls’ experiences and what their initial fears were as protective parents sending their daughters to spend a week at tech trek on a college campus. 

We have sent 33 girls from 2007-2011.

One of our 2010 UCSB Tech Trek campers, Heather Wulff, sharing her camp experiences with the Atascadero Kiwanis at their January 6, 2011 meeting.