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A Female Engineer in every School - AMIT-Aragón
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Description of the event
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The "Association of Women Researchers and Technologists" from Aragón (North of Spain) organizes this year the 8th edition of "A Female Engineering every School" project. More than 60 women engineers from University of Zaragoza, the CSIC and private sector, planned to visit primary schools to lead hands-on workshops with young students, both boys and girls, to show them how engineers work. More than 2000 students were reached in Aragón (Zaragoza capital city and also smaller rural towns), in a 50% girl attendance basis. The workshops ranged from computing, design, mechatronic and robotics to material science and biotechnology, depending on the age of the students, with a proactive attitude of self-efficiency and promoting team-work to achieve results. Several technology companies have signed an agreement with AMIT-Aragón, so the staff engineers can join the project and visit schools in their working time as CSR. We are convinced that role-model technologist women represent a good way to promote the interest of girls into STEM professions.
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Entity organizing the event, organizers
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AMIT-Aragón (Association of Women Researchers and Technologists in Aragon)
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