Summer Camps

TechREACH delivers week-long summer camps with innovative, hands-on curriculum designed to increase student interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. 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.

For more information on TechREACH summer programs, please contact us.

2010 TechREACH Summer Camp
SeaBots: Dive into Science

This summer TechREACH hosted SeaBots, a week-long camp at Edmonds Community College for girls ages 10-13. The camp was implemented using exciting new underwater robotics curriculum created at the Stevens Institute of Technology's Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE). SeaBots introduced eleven middle school girls to marine science and engineering as they designed and programmed Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) using LEGO Mindstorms™. The girls were charged with the task of maneuvering around an above ground pool to fulfill three separate marine science missions, including exploring a coral reef and investigating a sunken ship. The girls learned about computer programming, the engineering design process, and basic principles of physics. Women scientists visited the camp to share stories about their paths to their career, and the girls were even able to witness a real ROV explore their camp pool.

The club as an economic equalizer
The students in Voyager Middle School’s sixth grade club were so excited about TechREACH that they asked to present information about what they had learned to the Mukilteo School Board. They showed the Board a PowerPoint presentation highlighting the work they had done on their school Web site, the presentation they created for incoming fifth grade students, and information about how they are a major resource for school technology projects now. Afterwards, the TechREACH teachers drove a few of the girls home. When one of the girls asked to be dropped off at a particular hotel, they learned that her family was homeless and had been living from hotel to hotel.