Such an amazing experience!

Syd just completed an unbelievable two-week time of her life camp.  It was a whirlwind adventure, meeting the mayor of San Diego, hall of fame astronauts, eating lunch in the Qualcomm executive boardroom, getting behind the scenes tours at the Zoo and in the UCSD engineering labs.  It was just SO cool!  She learned how to write Android apps, she wired circuits, she programmed micro-computers, she built a light-up jewelry box, and a robotic hat!!

She was on the 5pm news...

She was in the newspaper...

And she was filmed for a documentary for the Clinton global initiative!

Yesterday we got to be treated like royalty at the official graduation ceremony. Sydney walked the red carpet runway to demonstrate her tropical island robotic hat, complete with an LED light, and spinning turtles.  She and her partner did all the wiring, programmed the micro-computer, and of course decorated the hat with tons of glitter, all on their own.  It was so impressive.

They had an official graduation ceremony, and acknowledged each girl.

Then we got to go outside for brunch, and see the hats up close.  Here is Syds:

I got to test out the hat.

Love these 4 girls who were selected from our school for the camp, who we had the best carpool with.

And, Syd's posterboard of selfies through out the week.  SO fun!

Best part of the whole experience, was hearing that they plan to have this 'pioneer group' back next year, and again the following year, and then they'd like to have them mentor younger girls going to Qcamp in the future - wow!