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Event Name
EQUALS Her Digital Skills Commonwealth Workshop
Date of the event
28/04/2022
Country
United Kingdom
City
London
Description of the event
This is a virtual EQUALS Her Digital Skills Workshop powered by the EQUALS Global Partnership for Digital Gender Equality as part of the EQUALS Her Digital Skills Initiative and supported by the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the Commonwealth Businesswomen Network (CBWN) targeting between 50 and 70 girls (ages 12 to 16) from across the UK and the rest of the Commonwealth. The goal of this workshop is to teach the participants a new set of digital skills that help them shift from just consuming information to becoming digital creators. In this workshop, the girls will learn the basics of creating Mobile applications. The project of the mobile application is to create an electronic book that represents the women in STEM role models in various countries. The girls will develop and design their own women role models storybook using Thunkable.In this workshop participants will:-Get introduced to the Thunkable components, and how they can use them.-Learn how to design their apps user interface by inserting media files-Learn the basics of Object-Oriented, and how they can use the logic to accomplish their application tasks.-Learn how to store and retrieve data
Website
https://www.equalsintech.org/her-digital-skills
Entity organizing the event, organizers
GSMAVerizonITUEQUALS Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital AgeCommonwealth Businesswomen Network