Mt. Diablo USD Hosts Annual Girls In Robotics Leadership Camp Summit

From MDUSD: WHAT: 3rd Annual MDUSD Area GIRL Camp Summit

WHEN: Research Project presentations, Friday, June 16, 3:30-5pm

WHERE: Valley View Middle School, 181 Viking Drive, Pleasant Hill (Get directions)

BACKGROUND: Nearly 60 girls from the 6th and 7th grades in the Mt. Diablo Unified School District (MDUSD) schools and surrounding areas are learning robotics, coding, collaboration and production skills at the 3rd Annual Girls In Robotics Leadership (GIRL) Camp Summit. Girls participate in the Summit at no charge thanks to a grant provided by Tesoro. Local professionals – all women – with expertise in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields and careers are serving as coaches and guest speakers the weeklong event.

The purposes of the Summit are to:

• Build a local community of girls and young women interested in STEM subjects and career opportunities
• Provide role models for young women
• Strengthen leaderships skills
• Develop programming, robotics and STEM-centric problem-solving and analytical skills

On Friday, the student participants will present final research projects as the culmination of their weeklong Summit experience. These projects are intended to demonstrate the girls’ proficiency and growth with ChiDE, an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for beginners to learn computer programming in C/C++, a high-level programming language used for nearly every available computing platform. The students will explain their research and detail how their teams collaborated to create the final project.

On-site contact is Jeff Rader at (925) 408-1647, cc’d above. If you are unable to attend but would like high-resolution photographs and suggested captions, please contact Jeff at the phone listed.

Photos courtesy of MDUSD