LAMORINDA WEEKLY | AAUW Honors Outstanding Lamorinda Students


AAUW OML Tech Trek Camp Scholarship Winners and Keynote Speaker: Helen Kaidantzis, Emilia Gutman, Yuhan Liu, Keynote Speaker Mary Fettig, Abbie Lee, Shannon Lipp, Reese Whipple.

On Sunday, April 17, The Orinda-Moraga-Lafayette branch of the Association of University Women (AAUW) celebrated with 10 young women from Lamorinda schools by awarding six Tech Trek camp scholarships and four college scholarships. The American Association of University Women (AAUW) is the nation's leading voice promoting equity and education for women and girls.

Six middle school girls, interested in science and math, were awarded full scholarships to the week-long science and math Tech Trek Camp that will be held on the Stanford Campus this July. In addition, one $5,000 and two $1,000 community service scholarships were award to three high school women and a $5,000 graduate studies scholarship was awarded to a Saint Mary's College student.

The six AAUW OML 2016 Tech Trek scholarship winners are Abigail Lee and Yuhan Liu from Joaquin Moraga Intermediate, Reese Whipple and Shannon Lipp from Orinda Intermediate, and Emilia Gutman and Helen Kaidantzis from Stanley Middle School.

The three high school awardees were Caiseen Kelley, Eleanor Roeder, and Yasmin Shamloo from Lamorinda high schools. Caiseen is also a former AAUW OML Tech Trek Scholarship recipient.

Carina Novell, a senior at Saint Mary's College, was awarded the Community Service Scholarship and will use it to study law at UC Davis.