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IBM's Watson Research Lab in Yorktown, N.Y. is 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 and inventors spent their times in these 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 young women from middle school to work 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 every day, so there are some role models they may not have seen before," says Katharine Frase of IBM Industry Solutions. "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."

Judging by their responses, it seems the week has certainly convinced the teenaged participants to believe their half of that "Annie Get Your Gun" song -- "Anything you can do, I can do better."

"They're always saying boys are smarter and that stuff, but girls are actually capable of much more," says eighth grader Alysia Parente.

"Working here, I didn't know it was going to be this fun. I actually thought I was going to work at a law school but it's really fun here," says eighth grader Tabitha Walsh.

"Yeah, doesn't seem as boring as you think it is," says eighth grader Marta Guevara.

A big focus is teaching the young women how to apply what they are learning to the real world, and particularly in making environmentally-friendlier products and technologies.

Some of the teenagers worked on a portable, easily-constructed water filter.

"In other countries, there are people who can't afford good water like we have here, so they can use this to clean water out so they don't get sick or use diseased, dirty water," says seventh grader Yara Suleiman.

Another group in the camp created marshmallow-looking substances that are environmentally-safer cleaning compounds.

"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," says seventh grader Kira Mack.

This is the seventh year of the Girls Go TechKnow program, and it is proudly supported by the Connect a Million Minds initiative of NY1 and its parent company, Time Warner Cable, which highlights education through science, technology, engineering and math. To find out about other science programs in your area and how to get involved, visit www.connectamillionminds.com.