Tech Trek Washington State STEM Camp for 7th Grade Girls
Pacific Lutheran University, 12180 Park Ave S, #99064, Tacoma, WA 98447
About
Tech Trek Washington State STEM Camp for 7th Grade Girls is a week-long, residential, hands-on STEM camp that includes core classes such as Stardust Astronomy, Robotics Engineering, Bodies by Design, App Inventor, and Cyber Security. Campers take afternoon classes that include mini-versions of the core classes and do activities like extracting their own DNA, doing genetic studies on “ReBops,” dissecting pig hearts, and taking part in finance activities provided by Financial Beginnings Washington that explore budgets for clothing, housing, student debt, and other expenses. The program also includes a field trip to look at marine life, a field trip to the Museum of Flight with activities such as filing flight plans, running a checklist on an airplane, doing experiments on aspects of flight, and flying in a flight simulator, along with pizza night, a movie night watching “Hidden Figures,” career night with 17 women scientists speaking to the girls, and stargazing while looking at the moon through a telescope.
• Ages: 12–13 years old
• Schedule: Week-long residential camp, with generally three camps held in July and August
• Price: It costs $1000 for each girl to attend camp.
The camp is designed to create interest, excitement, and confidence in young women at an age where they are sometime likely to drop out of math and science studies. The teachers are all women scientists, and AAUW Washington manages and coordinates the camp as an AAUW program that is going on in a number of states nationwide. Seattle Branch sponsors around 10 girls each year from schools in the greater Seattle area, and AAUW branches throughout the state sponsor girls so they can attend regardless of their financial status, with a focus on getting girls to camp who might not otherwise be able to attend this type of enrichment. All girls are sponsored so there are no financial barriers to attending camp, and campers live in college dorms for a week during the summer.
One camper shared that the week was a “fantastic and eye-opening experience” where she learned about what it is to be a woman in STEM, took Astronomy, Biology, Coding and Technology classes, discovered many different fields of STEM, and made supportive friends. She also said that Tech Trek allows girls and women to be confident in STEM and that it is okay to make mistakes because these are the things that help a person progress.
Last updated June 13, 2026.
• Ages: 12–13 years old
• Schedule: Week-long residential camp, with generally three camps held in July and August
• Price: It costs $1000 for each girl to attend camp.
The camp is designed to create interest, excitement, and confidence in young women at an age where they are sometime likely to drop out of math and science studies. The teachers are all women scientists, and AAUW Washington manages and coordinates the camp as an AAUW program that is going on in a number of states nationwide. Seattle Branch sponsors around 10 girls each year from schools in the greater Seattle area, and AAUW branches throughout the state sponsor girls so they can attend regardless of their financial status, with a focus on getting girls to camp who might not otherwise be able to attend this type of enrichment. All girls are sponsored so there are no financial barriers to attending camp, and campers live in college dorms for a week during the summer.
One camper shared that the week was a “fantastic and eye-opening experience” where she learned about what it is to be a woman in STEM, took Astronomy, Biology, Coding and Technology classes, discovered many different fields of STEM, and made supportive friends. She also said that Tech Trek allows girls and women to be confident in STEM and that it is okay to make mistakes because these are the things that help a person progress.
Last updated June 13, 2026.
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