Women in technology is a summer camp for girls going into eigth or ninth grade. Each camper must complete two workshops and give a presentation of their first workshop at the final assembly. The campers stay at the Vermont Techinical College, where campers get a taste of college life from living in the dorms and eating breakfast, lunch, and dinner, at the college cafeteria. Campers also participate in off-campus activities and get to go on fieldtrips. This site is an overview of our five days at Women in Technology.

    When campers arrive at camp, they are broken up into camper/counselor groups. These groups are decided in alphabetical order. For every eight girls, there is one counselor, and sometimes a counselor in training (CIT). There are two girls to a dorm room. You remain with the same roomate for the five days that you attend WIT. The counselors are at VTC to help and to guide us. They make sure that you know what you do, where to go, and try to help if you have any problems.

    Every camper is required to complete two workshops. The workshop choices for our camp session were - Website Design, City Vision, Solar Powered Cars, and Bridge Building. For three out of the five days, campers attend their workshops. The goal by the end of camp is to have two completed projects to bring home with you. The instructors of each workshops are women who have technical backgrounds. The workshops are designed to be educational. They are hands on activities that require thinking things through and using your imagination.

    Campers eat at the VTC cafeteria at 7:30 for breakfast, 12:15 for lunch, 5:00 for dinner. Campers get a variety of food choices from, pasta, meat, eggs, bagles, muffins, salad bar, etc... For dessert ice cream is availabe in various flavors and soft serve is also available.  As to whether or not the food is good, is a matter of opinion for every camper.

    The trip planned off campus was to IBM in Essex, about an hour away from VTC.  This is a trip planned for each session this year, and it's filled with fun things to do.  The trip opened up with a presentation made by one of the employees at IBM.  It focused on the different engineering opportunities and different jobs such as electrical engineer, environmental engineer, etc.  After that, we split up into different groups to go to stations such as getting into the suits used on the manufaturing line, taking a tour of the factory, making boats out of certain materials and trying to get them to stay afloat with different weights, and dismantaling computers and putting them back together.  In all it was a fun afternoon.