The Universidad Técnica del Norte (UTN), through the International Project “Building the future of Latin America: engaging women into STEM”, organized the event “Competitive Professional Profile” This activity was designed for the students and graduates of the different careers of the University. The talk aimed to provide tips and tools […]
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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.
In the Object Oriented Programming course, which is taught in the third semester of the Systems Engineering career at UNINORTE, students have the opportunity to put their project development and object oriented software development skills into practice with a real client. In this opportunity, Professor Lucy Garcia from the W-STEM […]
First time the Faculty of Sciences makes a welcome meeting of all the first year students from Biology, Geology, Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry Schools. (Every year the Students Association of each School make the welcome meeting). During the meeting we invited students to join “Mujeres de Ciencia” (Women of Science), […]
In honor of women’s day, workshops about the importance of women access in STEM careers were held at UTPL (Ecuador), where more than 100 students from three different schools in the town participated. The general theme of the workshops was called “Women in Engineering” its objective was to socialize the […]
In celebration of International Women’s Day, TU Dublin welcomed students from local secondary schools to take part in the interactive workshop – Let’s talk about your dream job. The event was organised by the College of Sciences and Health at TU Dublin as part of the W-STEM project. TU Dublin […]
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 […]
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.
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.