Building Generation Explorer...One Girl At a Time
Maker Faire Bay Area 2016
May 20th-22nd
Imagine flying through the ocean. Your cockpit? The control panel of an underwater robot you’ve just built! We’re building a network of ocean explorers through Girls Underwater Robot Camps.
Samantha Wishnak
Samantha is the co-founder of Global Engineering & Exploration Counselors, offering underwater robot building workshops to young women around the world. Part of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's ecosystem for the last decade, she shared kelp forest curiosities and conservation with millions of visitors in person and online.
http://www.thegeecs.com/
Erika Bergman
As a lifelong storyteller turned manned submersible pilot, Erika is a passionate ocean explorer. She is co-founder of Global Engineering & Exploration Counselors, providing a network of marine engineering camps to girls around the world. She studied chemical oceanography at the University of Washington while working as a diesel engineer aboard the tall ship S/V Lady Washington.
http://www.thegeecs.com/
