“It started in high school, when Marie Wolbach was the only girl in her physics class. And then, later in life, after she had children, she decided to go back to school and was denied even an application to the University of Utah’s physician’s assistant program.
A generation later, when Wolbach’s daughter arrived at her own Advanced Placement physics class in high school in Palo Alto, she was told she shouldn’t raise her hand in class.
Wolbach, a Palo Alto resident, received a prestigious national honor in June for her leadership of the Tech Trek program, which has now grown to more than 20 camps based at universities and colleges throughout the United States that have reached more than 9,000 young women.
Tech Trek is a volunteer-driven program; everyone from junior counselors to dorm mothers to directors are volunteers, many of whom once attended the camp themselves, Wolbach said.
Simply Google “girls’ STEM camps Bay Area” and there are endless hits — university-based camps, “adventure camps,” science internship programs, community organizations, online classes and more.”
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