On February 28th members from the Uninorte team of the W-STEM Project made a visit to a secondary school in Barranquilla and gave a talk to a group of 20 girls of junior year. This pilot of our attraction campaigns consisted of a talk where the importance of having more […]
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Last Tuesday February 11th, during the welcome-back fair organized by the student life department (LiFE), representatives of the W-STEM project at Tecnológico de Monterrey celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. During a celebration that took place from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., W-STEM team congratulated female […]
In the frame of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, Uninorte organized some activities with the aims of empowering girls and creating awareness of the problematic: a talk about why is it important to have more women in STEM and how media has invisibilized the role of […]
On 12th February 2020 there will be an event in occasion of the Celebration of the International Day of Women in Science. It will be a time to reflect on the past and on the history of women engineers in Politecnico di Torino, on the present, with three talks from […]
Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar celebrated on February 11th the International Day of Women and Girls in Science with several activities. The day started with the event: “Coffee for the education of the girls and women”, where public and private entities were invited to learn about the initiatives developed to encourage […]
The Gender Gap in Science project (2017–2019) was funded by the International Science Council and involved eleven scientific partner organizations.The main goal of the project was to investigate the gender gap in STEM disciplines from different angles, globally and across disciplines. They have performed (i) a global survey of scientists […]
To address gender participation inequities in STEM, the Beautiful Patterns initiative was created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during 2017. This program welcomes women ages 13 to 17 to develop new scientific and technological skills while they become engaged in said professional areas. Based on Mexico’s worrying statistics […]
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 […]
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 […]