2024
Camp Dates
Tech Trek Virtual Camp Virtual Tech Trek is the newest week-long camp in AAUW California’s STEM offerings. Developed in response to Covid 19 in 2020, the cloud-based camp served 40 girls in its pilot year (2020) and nearly 600 in its state-wide inaugural year (2021). With a similar hands-on STEM and social learning focus as the campus-based Tech Trek programs, it provides campers remote access to activities, new friends, virtual field trips, and role models to help foster STEM engagement and interest in STEM studies and careers without ever having to leave home (other than to pick up your camp supplies)! | July 21-26 | |
California State University, Fresno Tech Trek Fresno was the second camp started as part of AAUW California’s Tech Trek project in 1999. It is located at Fresno State University, in the heart of California’s Central Valley and serves campers from across California. | June 9-15 June 16-22 |
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University of California Santa Cruz Tech Trek will start at UC Santa Cruz in 2024. Campers from the Bay and coastal areas will attend Carson. | July 14-19 | |
Santa Clara University Hopper (Santa Clara University) Tech Trek will start at Santa Clara in 2024. Campers from the Bay Area will attend Hopper. | July 7-13 | |
Sonoma State University The Tech Trek Program came to Sonoma State in 2008. Prior to that, from 2001-2007, campers went to Mills College in Oakland. | June 23-29 | |
UC Davis AAUW Tech Trek was first held at the University of California, Davis, in the summer of 2011. Campers from northern California attend Tech Trek at UC Davis, which is located west of Sacramento. As one of the nation’s top public research universities, with a breadth of academic programs, global leadership in sustainability, and a commitment to addressing society’s needs through innovative research, UC Davis offers campers a variety of on-campus field trips and experiences, including visits to the nationally known School of Veterinary Medicine. | July 14-20 | |
UC San Diego Tech Trek started in 1999 at UC San Diego. The campus is located in La Jolla, CA on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Campers from all over Southern California and the desert areas along the Arizona-Nevada borders attend camp at UCSD. | June 23-28 | |
UC Santa Barbara Tech Trek started on the UC Santa Barbara campus in 2005. A second week was added in 2010. Currently there there are (2) 1-week camps each year. | On Hiatus | |
Whittier College Tech Trek started at Whittier in 2001. Campers from the Los Angeles metropolitan area and beach cities area attend the Whittier College program. | June 16-22 June 23-29 |