Keeping In Touch
Your friends at Tech Trek and the AAUW branch members who sent you to camp want to know how you are doing. Please keep in touch with them. Camp directors’ emails can be found on the camp page on this website (click on your camp name at the very top of this page, then scroll to the bottom of that page); they can put you in touch with your AAUW branch. You can also go to “Find a Branch” at www.aauw-ca.org. Be sure to put "Tech Trek" in the subject line and tell us which camp and year you attended. Your current email addresses are particularly useful. We will not share them with anyone outside the Tech Trek community.
Tell Us Your Stories
We would be delighted to hear if you followed your science and math interest in high school. If you are attending college, what college and what\'s your major? If you have reached adulthood, what career are you pursuing?
Opportunities For Former Tech Trekkers
Junior and senior counselors, dorm mothers, teachers, guests at Professional Women’s Nights, AAUW branch coordinators, and even camp directors.
Junior and Senior Counselors (also called camp aides or peer counselors)
Individual camp directors select these valuable camp assistants, conforming to the needs of their particular camp. All junior and senior counselors are former Tech Trekkers, usually at the camp they attended as rising 8th graders.
Most junior counselors are entering 10th or 11th grade. Senior counselors, which many camps include, are high school seniors or recent graduates.
Junior and Senior Counselor Job Descriptions
You can download a general description of what to expect as a JC at most camps here. Many camps also have senior counselors who supervise the JCs, act as camp director assistants, may handle camp Internet issues, and fill in as required. Some camps have only one JC per core class; others two per class. Each camp director decides the number needed and what these valued counselors will do.
Tech Trek at U.C. San Diego has only two counselors. They must be age 16 or older, have a driver’s license and be prepared to drive a golf cart.
How to Apply
Contact the camp director at the camp you attended. Her email is at the bottom of the camp/campus page; cick on the link at the very top of this page to go there. They keep a list of girls who were recommended at camp as potential JCs and of those who said they wanted to be considered. Be sure to notify them if your email changes.
Sometime in early spring you will be asked if you still want to apply and, if so, you will receive an application and essay question to complete. There is no interview for this job since we already know you. If you are not selected the first year, please try again.
Other Opportunities for Former Tech Trekkers
Former campers have returned for Professional Women’s Night (or Evening), impressing current campers (and staff) that the 13-year-old they knew years ago is now a doctor or scientist or.... Several young women have also returned as dorm moms, teachers, AAUW branch Tech Trek coordinators—the women who choose the new campers—and, in 2012, as camp directors: this year, Cassie Resendez and Becca Jennings will direct Tech Trek at CSU Fresno. This is SO exciting!
Because our campers are so special at age 13 we are not at all surprised when they become successful adults with exciting careers. We hope that their Tech Trek experience had a little to do with their academic and career choices. And, as always, please keep in touch!