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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]