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techGYRLS Elementary School Outreach

techGYRLS Elementary School Outreach. techGYRLS : http :// www.ywca-berkeley.org/programs-for-youth /# tech Run by YWCA Started as an afterschool program for girls in underprivileged Oakland public elementary schools

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techGYRLS Elementary School Outreach

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  1. techGYRLS Elementary School Outreach • techGYRLS: http://www.ywca-berkeley.org/programs-for-youth/#tech • Run by YWCA • Started as an afterschool program for girls in underprivileged Oakland public elementary schools • Improve girls’ confidence and interests in technology and engineering through hands-on activities • Maryam Kamgarpour has been a mentor in techGYRLS since 2006 • Potential for introducing new curriculum • Techbridge: http://www.techbridgegirls.org/ • Develops and implements engineering based lesson plans for K-12 • SnapCircuits: kid-friendly circuit board

  2. SnapCircuits • Emerson Elementary School: Fall 2011 • La Escuelita Elementary School: Spring 2012 • 4 Berkeley Engineering Grad students, tutored and evaluated by Techbridge

  3. SnapCircuits • Electricity and circuits, energy: light, sound, motion • Project: building an electric game board

  4. Robots and Rockets

  5. Explorations in Science Research (Culler) • An intensive 9-day undergraduate workshop focused on energy and climate, taught by David Culler and Ron Cohen (Berkeley Atmospheric Science Center) • 24 undergraduates (18 female) • Introduced to many of the ActionWebs and LoCal projects in a hands-on manner: energy efficient buildings, wireless sensor networks, data analysis of buildings • https://sites.google.com/site/ucbeis/

  6. Berkeley Pioneers in Engineering (PiE) • UC Berkeley students mentor local high school students in a robotics competition, organized by PiE • eg. a game: • Get as many tennis balls into a certain area of the arena, with an opponent that is trying to do the same thing • Large number of high school women • https://pioneers.berkeley.edu/ • ActionWebs provided support for 10 high school students • Shankar Sastry and Claire Tomlin participated in 2011 (Wozniak) and 2012 (Lawrence Hall of Science)

  7. NSF SUPERB and CS Kickstart • NSF SUPERB (NSF REU Summer Undergraduate Program in Engineering Research at Berkeley) • Several students have participated • Virginia (Ginger) Smith participated during Summer 2011 and has returned to Berkeley this Fall to start graduate school • http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Programs/ugrad/superb/superb.html • CS Kickstart • Contacts all incoming women undergraduates at Berkeley, interested in CS • A one week program of projects, lectures, talks, fun events • 2011, 2012 (just finished last Friday) • https://sites.google.com/site/cskickstart/

  8. Other activities • Laney-Peralta Community College Environmental Control Technology Program • Green Technology School within Berkeley High • Lawrence Hall of Science • BEAM (Berkeley Engineers and Mentors): http://beam.berkeley.edu/ • Berkeley Math Circle: http://mathcircle.berkeley.edu/ • Berkeley School of Education: • http://www-gse.berkeley.edu/academic.html

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