Tech Trek

Send A Girl to Tech Trek Camp

Tech Trek is a week-long residential math/science camp for girls entering the eighth grade. Programs are offered at five sites.

Tech Trek: “Camp” Without Really “Camping”

Over 500 girls enjoyed the experience of “camp,” without really “camping,” in 2003. “You can do anything!” “Be all you can be!” echoes from the moment a student is identified by a teacher at her school through the selection process, to finally going home after an exhilarating (but exhausting) week at a Tech Trek camp.

The theme throughout the camps is the fun it is to share the experience on a college campus, living in a dorm with other girls with similar interests. Each of the camps is individually administered, but much is the same for all camps:

Core classes in subjects such as Bacteriology, Biology, Geology, Engineering (bridge building), Marine Biology, Orienteering (math), Solar Energy, Physics (roller coasters, hot air balloons), Forensics, Chemistry (manufacturing make-up!), Math and Geometry, Computers (film editing) and Space Science (all camps)

Field trip activities: Challenger Learning Centers to fly a simulated Mission to Mars (Fresno and Mills); Marine Biology boat trip (UC-San Diego and Stanford); visits to Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Whittier), Super Computer (UC-San Diego) and Lawrence Hall of Science (Mills)

Special Classes: Computer Robotics (Stanford, Fresno, UC-San Diego), Water activities: Snorkeling (UC-San Diego); Canoeing (Fresno)

Mini-lab, Short Courses: Veterinary science (read X-rays, joints), DNA extraction, forensic sciences, making polymers (GAK), oil spill clean-up, math games, gemology,

Special Activities: Professional Women Dinners; skills clinics with professional soccer players; Ingenuity Night, Bat Biology, astronomy, talent shows, “Build It” Fairs.

Hands-on activities in core classes, rotating labs and field trips at Tech Trek camps help to make math and science fun along with being educational.