Columbia University’s School of Professional Studies' Girls in STEM program kicks off this week in San Francisco.
The first week of the program runs June 13 through 17, and is hosted in Microsoft's San Francisco offices. Twenty young women from the KIPP: San Francisco Bay Academy and other public and charter schools in the San Francisco area have been selected to study, tuition-free, throughout the week. Two other programs are scheduled this summer, in Miami and New York City.
Students are spending each day participating in a rigorous, practical, academic program taught by Columbia faculty and modeled after Columbia’s Summer Programs for High School Students.
The San Francisco academic program will be experiential and engaging with a focus on computer science. The students are spending time during the intensive program developing leadership skills for young women and being introduced to college readiness experiences.
Guest speakers at the San Francisco Girls in STEM program include Katy Brown, GM of Microsoft NorCal; Amy Gershkoff, Chief Data Officer of Zynga; Meghan Laffey, Senior Director of Business Operations for Software and Services, GoPro; and Claudia Lam, M.S. in Technology Management ’10 and Program Manager at Space Systems Loral.
