AR Girls virtual camp is a free, hands on, and fun-filled week-long design experience for pre-teen and teen girls. Please fill out the application below. Spots are on a first-come, first-serve basis. A waitlist will be created if spots fill up. The program commitment is for the full week session, Monday through Friday, 10am - 2pm with a built-in lunch break.

AR Girls participants will learn to use a cool augmented reality (AR) app to overlay graphics, videos, audio--even their own art and photos--onto the real world. Using their creativity and design skills, participants will create an AR experience around the theme "reducing waste", focusing on a waste topic that matters to them and is an issue in their community—such as food waste, plastic waste or fashion waste.

No prior experience with digital art, design, or augmented reality is needed. Just an interest in art.

2021 AR Girls Virtual Camp Overview:
- Open to girls ages 12-16 living in Maine
- Online group activities (using Zoom app) and offline independent challenges
- What's needed to participate:
            - A quiet place to participate
            - Access to internet
            - Mobile device (Apple or Android)*
            - Computer*
            - Creativity!
            *The "Metaverse" app will need to be loaded ahead of time.

Contact us if access to technology is an obstacle for you.

AR Girls Virtual Camp is a collaboration between the Maine Mathematics & Science Alliance, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Harvard University, Oregon State University and University of Wisconsin Madison. It is supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (1657317).