Rosaura M. Romero Chacón (University of Costa Rica) carried out a seminar about “La importancia de una educación en ciencias que busque la equidad” (The importance of a science education that seeks equity) at the XXI Congreso Nacional de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, a conference organized by Centro Nacional de […]
Yearly archives: 2019
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The second of August the team from Barranquilla launched at Universidad del Norte (Colombia) the “W-STEM Student Group”. This is an initiative that aims to empower STEM students by addresing subjects such as professional paths, why is it important to have more women in STEM fields, among others. Another aim […]
The “W-STEM FICA” group since its creation has always been a participant in all the sporting, social and cultural events of Universidad Técnica del Norte because we know these activities balance the academic and social life. In all the events the members of the group attended wearing the T-Shirt to […]
The Summer School of Politecnico di Torino “SAPERI: SPATIAL ABILITY PER L’INGEGNERIA” was designed for 4th-year high school girls. The event was based on Prof. Sorby spatial ability course and the main objective was to raise knowledge of one’s potential and improve personal abilities. The Summer School took place from […]
Two workshops were developed by the University of Costa Rica (UCR); one with Primary School teachers and another with Secondary School teachers in Costa Rica´s countryside in Pavón (Los Chiles, Costa Rica), a town near the border with Nicaragua. During the two workshops, the subject related to the importance of […]
To continue with the celebration of the “International Girls’ Day in Tics”, the “W-STEM FICA” group in conjunction with the Wie Affinity Group (Women in Engineering) of the IEEE Student Branch of the Universidad Técnica de Norte organized a workshop called “SPAT TECH”. This activity encourages the collaborative work among […]
Alicia García-Holgado from the GRIAL Research Group of the University of Salamanca participated in a roundtable sharing initiatives and projects related to girls in ICT as a first step to launch a work group focus on promoting STEM at schools in Castile and León. W-STEM Project was one of the […]
The “W-STEM FICA” group, together with the Wie Affinity Group (Women in Engineering) of the IEEE Student Branch at Universidad Técnica del Norte, held an event the “International Day of Girls in Tics”, on April 2019. For this event, we invited girls from the orphanage “Mercedes de Jesús Molina” and […]
In March, all teachers who are integrated different careers of the Faculty of Engineering in Applied Sciences (FICA) at Universidad Técnica del Norte took the initiative to create the Group called “W-STEM FICA”, which is born to contribute and promote that girls and young people are linked to science, technology, […]