The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded a $1.2 million grant to develop a summer camp for middle school girls focused on computational technology, Baskin Engineering at UCSC shared this video on Youtube!
The Social Wearables Educational Live Action Role Play (SWEL) Camp, funded through an NSF grant awarded to Professor of Computational Media Katherine Isbister’s Social Emotional Technology Lab (SET Lab), was designed by UCSC researchers to blend social experience with computational activities to drive middle school girls’ interest and confidence in pursuing technical subjects.