The European project W-STEM (Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM) aims to improve strategies and mechanisms for attracting, accessing, retaining and orienting women in STEM higher education programmes in Latin America. W-STEM involves institutions from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Finland and […]
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The W-STEM UTN project held a virtual collage contest called “I want to change the world” for two categories, 6 to 8 and 9 to 12 years old. The contest was organized in commemoration of Children’s Day in Ecuador. In order to increase the interest of girls and boys in […]
The road for women in science in Mexico and the world has not been easy. A very frequent question is, how to achieve the perfect balance between our personal and professional roles? We need to create mechanisms that favor an equitative and collaborative working environment, focused on achievements and development […]
The University of Guadalajara collaborates with the W-STEM project in its objective of improving the strategies and mechanisms of attraction, access and orientation of women in STEM higher education programs in Latin America In this regard, representatives of the W-STEM project participated in events carried out by the institution that […]
Workshops were developed with girls from 7-13 years. Every 15 days we met to make experiments and show how girls can make science! Activities were hold at a marginal region of Costa Rican metropolitan area.
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 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 […]
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.
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 […]