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NEW YORK, NY—There seems to be no shortage of camps ranging from the performing arts to the martial arts and nearly everything in between. What is rare, however, is the camp that engages the mind in a way that few do, which is in the pursuit of science, technology, engineering, and math—or STEM.

It's a building that has been and continues to be the workplace of some of the brightest minds in the world Nobel Prize winners, groundbreaking scientists, researchers, inventors. It's IBM's Watson Research Lab, headquarters for the largest industrial research organization in the world. it also served for a week this summer, as headquarters for the Girls Go TechKnow Camp. A program designed to get some middle school, young, women working on serious science projects, from robotics to chemistry, alongside some world-class researchers.

"We're hoping that they take three things away, the first is that science and technology is fun. The second is that there really are hundreds of people who do this everyday so there are some role models they may not have seen before. And the third is by the end of the week over 100 IBM researchers will have volunteered their time, both men and women, because they believe in these girls that much," said Katharine Frase, with IBM Industry Solutions

Judging by the responses of those involved, it seems the week has certainly convinced these girls to believe that they can certainly do whatever they put their mind to.

"They're always saying boys are smarter and that stuff but girls are actually capable of much more," said Eighth Grader, Alysia Parente.
A big focus, teaching these young women how to apply what they're learning to the real world, in particular the outside world, how to make greener products and technologies.

"Our products they have all natural ingredients and they actually clean surfaces like this had dirt on top and we used our scrub and now it's way whiter than it was," said Seventh Grader, Kira Mack.

This is the seventh year of the Girls Go TechKnow Program.