About:

This week we meet Jewella, AKA Dr Jenine Beekhuyzen, Griffith University IT lecturer and founder of the Tech Girls movement, and Alyona Medelyan, founder of Entopix, and organiser of the ‘STEAM Ahead’ events to encourage girls to consider careers in STEAM. Thought we’d like to think that gender stereotypes are mostly a thing of the past, the truth is a different matter. Today Janine and Alyona talk about what they’re doing to try and change things.

Key Points:

Hidden gender stereotypes that change career paths

STEAM ahead events - changing how girls see STEAM subjects

How events change what students think about helping the world

Real-life role models making STEAM accessible

The value of hands-on experience

How to support schools to develop STEAM in class

Other resources and Links Mentioned:

STEAM Ahead site

Video: Why are fewer people studying science and engineering?

Tech Girl Superheroes on Twitter (Tweets by Jenine)

http://www.techgirlsmovement.org/

http://www.techgirlsaresuperheroes.org/

https://twitter.com/TGAsuperheroes

Alyona on Twitter