A young mechatronic engineering female student, Natalie Vilchis, will collaborate in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at NASA during a research stay in 2020 developing a plasma drill. This technology will allow NASA to explore under the frozen surface of Mars and some satellites in Jupiter and Saturn, looking for water […]
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The team from the University of Costa Rica (UCR) developed several workshops from October to December 2019 with girls from 7-13 years old. Every 15 days they met to make experiments and show how girls can make science. The activities were hold at a marginal region of Costa Rican metropolitan […]
UTN organized in December several events aimed at women students from first to tenth level of the Faculty of Engineering of Applied Sciences – FICA – UTN. With the objectives of spreading the Project to female students of the faculty and visualizing the presence of female teachers in engineering. On […]
In the framework of the W-STEM project, Dr. Carina González, full professor at the University of La Laguna (Spain), give a alk about “The Careers of the Future” which was aimed at students from the STEM area.
OuLUMA-Center is a unit at the University of Oulu that advances cooperation between universities and schools to develop education of STEM subjects in northern Finland. According to Sari Harmoinen, the vice director of the center and the leader of the Oulu’s W-STEM team, the center received a certificate of appreciation […]
The Annual Open Day for Technological University Dublin took place in Dublin City Centre today. This event, attended by thousands of secondary school students from throughout Ireland, included a variety of presentations from female and male STEM students. The W-STEM project and its objectives was publicised at this event. The […]
Alicia García-Holgado was invited as speaker to the national conference about equality in the different areas at the university. The conference was held by the University of Salamanca (Spain) on 19 November 2019. She presented the main idea of the W-STEM project and the self-assessment and process mapping guidelines as […]
19th November the first session of the “Robotics Club” took place at Universidad del Norte (Colombia). A group of young girls in school attended accompanied by teachers and parents. They learnt the principles of programming and robotics by building a “Lego Mindstorm” robot.
Francisco José García-Peñalvo, coordinator of the W-STEM project and director of the GRIAL Research Group of the University of Salamanca, has presented W-STEM project in the Coimbra Group Seminar about Innovation in Learning and Teaching in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. The event was in Granada (Spain) on […]