Girls in STEM: Hands-On Exploration for Future Innovators

These guidelines were created to help teachers organise their own “Girls in STEM: Hands-On Exploration for Future Innovators” event in their schools, aiming to empower and inspire female students by offering hands-on STEM experiences guided by female mentors. It seeks to spark interest in STEM fields, address existing gender disparities, and challenge stereotypes while highlighting the benefits of greater female participation in these areas. By providing role models and showcasing the potential of girls to become future leaders in STEM, the program fosters a supportive environment where young women can envision themselves thriving in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

The “Girls in STEM: Hands-On Exploration for Future Innovators” guidelines are designed to help schools organise all-day STEM workshops aimed at empowering and inspiring female students. These workshops provide hands-on experiences in STEM-related projects and experiments, guided by female mentors with expertise in areas like science, engineering, computer science, and robotics. The guidelines outline steps to create interactive activities such as programming exercises, scientific experiments, engineering design projects, and robotics demonstrations, ensuring access to necessary materials and fostering collaboration among students. Additionally, they emphasize the importance of evaluating the event's impact through participant feedback to enhance future initiatives.

Organise hands-on workshops and activities where students can engage in STEM-related projects and experiments under the guidance of female mentors, in order to educate all the students of your school and to empower and inspire the female students. Invite female mentors who are experts in STEM fields to guide the students during the workshops/activities. These mentors should possess relevant expertise and experience in areas such as science, computer science, engineering, and robotics. Develop engaging and interactive all-day workshops/activities, in collaboration with the invited mentors, that allow students to actively participate and learn. Consider incorporating programming exercises, scientific experiments, engineering design projects, and robotics demonstrations. Following the event, establish mechanisms for evaluating its effectiveness and collecting feedback from the participants. Use this feedback to identify areas for improvement and refine future workshop initiatives.