San Francisco, California - “Girls in Engineering” summer camp for middle school students, organized by the University of California, Berkeley, College of Engineering. The goal of the program is to inspire the next generation of female engineers by providing 5th-, 6th- and 7th-grade girls a taste of different careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The program was developed by senior female faculty, staff and graduate students at the College of Engineering.

This week, approximately 30 girls from several Bay Area schools will be bused to the UC Berkeley campus to conduct hands-on experiments in robotics, nanotechnology, computer science and more. The girls will be taught by female faculty, staff and graduate and undergraduate students, and they will spend one day at Twitter headquarters in San Francisco with female engineers and managers there.