Summer Camps

TechREACH delivers week-long summer camps with innovative, hands-on curriculum designed to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. The camps introduce concepts that are relevant to students today, such as robotics, animation, game programming, and more. Activities develop and reinforce critical-thinking, problem solving, and basic academic and communications skills. Camps are led by TechREACH staff that are trained in supporting student interests in STEM.

2010 TechREACH Summer Camp
SeaBots: Dive into Science

This summer, TechREACH will host SeaBots: Dive into Science, a one-week camp for girls. The girls will design, build and deploy Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) that will explore a coral reef, investigate a sunken ship, and collect samples from the watery depths! Interactive hands-on activities will facilitate the understanding of computer programming concepts, basic principles of physics, and what it means to be a mechanical engineer or a computer scientist in marine research. Women scientists will visit the camp to share their stories and enthusiasm for robotics with the girls. Camp registration is first-come, first-served and limited scholarships are available on a need basis.

Where: Edmonds Community College, Lynnwood, WA
When: July 12 – 16, 2010
Time: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Cost: $50 non-refundable deposit after acceptance, plus $200 workshop fee
Who: Girls going into grades 6 – 8 in Fall 2010

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