Tech Trek

Hope to see you at our “fun”draiser on February 4th! Invite your friends, family, and AAUW pals to join you for an evening of delicious food and drinks at Virtue + Vice. Enjoy a tasty meal and support Tech Trek to raise money for camperships presented to San Ramon 7th grade girls for a week-long camp experience focused on STEM.

Call 925-406-4867 to make reservations or online here

This is the primary fundraiser for Tech Trek. 

Virtue + Vice supports local non-profits by generously donating 10% of the evening’s proceeds and 100% of the tips to AAUW San Ramon Tech Trek. Please mention AAUW San Ramon when you call to make your reservation. We look forward to seeing you there!

If you cannot make the event and still wish to donate, please mail a check payable to AAUW CA SPF with Tech Trek San Ramon in the memo line to PO Box 336, San Ramon CA 94583. Or donate online by clicking here: Donate  Select Tech Trek – Sonoma Franklin Camp 5037 and write San Ramon in the Note field.

 

Four of our 2025 Tech Trek campers joined us at the September Membership Welcome event and shared fun adventures about their camp experience. They impressed us with their stories and their enthusiasm for STEM. Thank you again for supporting this great project.

We appreciate your support and look forward to another successful Tech Trek Year!

 

Meet the campers and hear more about their experiences at our Membership Welcome Event on Sept 6. Here are a few gracious thank you notes we received, it sounds like each camper had a very memorable experience.

Thank you for the amazing opportunity to go to Tech Trek. I am so thankful and lucky to get to experience all of this hands on STEM work from the astronomy and stars through telescopes or the field trip I took to the water reservoir. I had an amazing time and am so appreciative.

From, Yani Lin 

Thank you for choosing me to go to Tech Trek. I had an amazing experience there. I made lots of friends, with girls who share an interest in STEM and level of intelligence as me. I also learned lots of things that I haven’t learned before. For example, I learned how to solder in the Flashlight Workshop. I also got to experience what it’s like to work in a crime scene as a forensics scientist in Forensics class. Thank you again for giving me the opportunity to attend Tech Trek.

Sincerely, Liliane Vu

I don’t know exactly who you are, but based on what I’ve experienced here at Tech Trek, I basically indebted to you! At first I thought the email sent to me was a scam because never in a million years would I have thought to be selected for something like this. But here I am, thanks to you nonetheless. The things I’ve done here are so unique, like Ingenuity Night (the chants were super cool), or the coding thing (STEM Lingo?). (I’ve had so much fun!) You deserve a lot of recognition for the amount of effort you put in to help organize this thing. (I mean the selection process alone must’ve been so challenging!). But in a small thank you to you and your team for creating this experience, is this letter.

Lots of thanks.

Sincerely, Vanditha

 

 

 

Dine for a Cause
at
Virtue + Vice Restaurant
267 Hartz Ave, Danville

Encourage your friends, neighbors, and family to join you while you all enjoy a delicious meal. Proceeds from the evening will help fund the cost of 7th-grade girls selected to attend Tech Trek camp at Sonoma State.

Virtue+Vice supports local non-profits by generously donating 10% of the evening’s proceeds and 100% of the tips to AAUW San Ramon Tech Trek.

Please mention AAUW San Ramon when you call (925) 406-4867 or go online to make your reservation.

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

(L to R) Cindy Alpert, Tech Trek Co-Coordinator; campers Ela Top, Ananya Bollapinni, Anjana Parvathala; Kathy Senti, Tech Trek Co-Coordinator

2024 Tech Trek Campers

Tech Trek 2024 was another huge success! Our Tech Trek students are a very inspiring group of girls. Their poise, enthusiasm, and accomplishments made the selection process very challenging. Our branch sent six girls to Residential Camp at Sonoma State and two girls to Virtual Camp. Many thanks to Co-Coordinators, Cindy Alpert and Kathi Senti, and their team of readers/interviewers for leading this very important effort for our branch. Their dedication and commitment contributed to another successful year!