Encouraging Girls in Science: An Experience Report of Programming and Robotics Minicourses for Teenagers

• Júlia Marotti UFRJ
• Francisco Campos UFRJ
• Julia Godinho UFRJ
• Gabriel SantClair UFRJ
• Flávia Villela UFRJ
• Janaina Gomide UFRJ
• Laura Emmanuella de Oliveira UFRN
• Beatriz Becker UFRJ
• Camila Laricchia UFRJ
• Denise Siloto UFRJ
• Elisa Rocha UFRJ
• Milena Estanislau UFRJ
• Tabatta Martins UFRJ
• Valeria Nunes Belmonte UFRJ

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2021.15870

Abstract

This paper presents the experience report of mini programming and robotics minicourses for teenager girls from Macaé and region. The aim of this work is to encourage women for the careers of sciences, engineering and computing, and to advertise the undergraduate courses in Engineering offered by Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) for these young women. The minicourses took place in partnership with teachers from three public schools and reached a total of 50 tennagers, 35 of whom were female. Throughout the classes, it was possible to observe the interest of the students in the activities carried out in the Engineering courses and the curiosity to learn more about programming.

Keywords: Robotics, Programming, Girls, Python

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