Atlantic Cape Hosts Teentech 2016

MAYS LANDING – Teentech 2016, a daylong program for girls in ninth, tenth and eleventh grades, was held June 2 at Atlantic Cape Community College in Mays Landing. The event was sponsored by the Atlantic and Cape May County chapters of the American Association of University Women.
About 65 girls participated from seven schools in the two counties.
Designed for girls interested in careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM), the hands-on workshops included crime-scene investigation, TV production, drones, 3D printing, engineering, the science of cooking and medical training.
During lunch, the girls heard from a panel made up of local women in STEM careers, including Marie Kee, an aerospace engineer at the FAA Technical Center, and Nicole Aszman and Olivia Dunleavy, both engineers and supervisors at South Jersey Gas. The women discussed the hardships and the rewards of choosing nontraditional careers.
Maria Kellett, senior director of resource development at ACCC, announced that a grant from South Jersey Gas will fund a new ACCC scholarship to be awarded to one of the girls who attended this year’s teentech.
In addition to teentech, AAUW sponsored a similar daylong tweentech program for local sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade girls, held in January at Stockton University in Pomona.
Also, Tech Trek Camp, which is a weeklong residential program at Stockton, was held for the first time last July with 30 local eighth-grade girls attending. This year the program will serve 60 girls from all over the state including 35 from Atlantic and Cape May counties.
AAUW is a national organization whose primary mission is education for women and girls.