Students from the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Costa Rica organized “Semana C” (Week of Science) during 21-25th of September. W-STEM participated with a forum where we exposed numbers regarding students enrolled in STEM careers and 5 female professors shared their experiences as women in a STEM career.
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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 […]
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 […]