Here are our education initiatives:
Local Scholarships
Three or four scholarships are offered each year for young women who graduated from Half Moon Bay or Pescadero High Schools and are now entering their third or fourth year of college.
Click here for more information.
Speech Trek
Each February, a topic is presented for debate, chosen by AAUW CA. Half Moon Bay high school students are eligible to enter. Our members help with their presentations. A winner is chosen locally who then participates in a statewide competition.
Tech Trek
Five seventh graders from Cunha Intermediate School are chosen for a week-long STEM camp held at Stanford University during the summer. The girls are nominated by their science and math teachers.
To learn more about Tech Trek click here.
STEM Workshop
A four-day STEM program is held at Cunha Intermediate School in the summer for those girls who were nominated for Tech Trek but were not chosen as finalists.
Click here for information on our past STEM Camps.
AAUW Funds
We also support and provide funding to our national organization to assist in various programs. We pool our funds to provide Community and Research Grants, aiding scholars in completing their education. For more information on AAUW Funds click here or go to www.aauw.org.
AAUW’s mission is: To advance gender equality for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.