STEM Outreach Program

Since 2016, I have been organizing a weeklong summer educational camp for students from High Schools and Middle Schools in Fort Collins, Colorado. SWiFT (Summer STEM Camp for Women in Fort Collins) has been held in the Computer Science Department at Colorado State University. SWiFT is sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the Computer Science Department at CSU, the College of Natural Sciences, and the CNS Jack Cochran Family Professorship. [Visit the SWiFT page]

The camp provides activity-based learning and hands-on experiences to demonstrate how mathematical concepts that students learn in school are applied to solve real-world problems using data science. The original objective of SWiFT was encouraging female High School students to explore careers in computer science by exposing them to a holistic environment of encompassing programming, team interactions, access to real-world examples, and applicability to mathematics and other sciences and engineering. Now, SWiFT is offered to students in Middle Schools and High Schools in Fort Collins area.