Girls Step in STEM for a million opportunities

  • P Project/Program

? Activity Status: Unknown

Key Information

On January 2019, the Ministry of Education in a collaboration with UNESCO and FAWE Rwanda opened a six days Mentoring Boot Camp for Girls in STEM, under the Theme: “Girls Step in STEM for a million opportunities”. One of the objectives of the STEM Mentoring camp is to inspire and nurture secondary school girls to see science as part of their lives so that they can embrace STEM fields for their future careers. The camp will also prove girls with an opportunity to relate and interact with women scientists and engineers for role modeling and mentoring they will also be exposed to the work environment in industries to help them relate what they learn in school to real world of work and their daily lives through demonstration and practice. Participants are 170 secondary students girls and 17 of their teachers from S2. Students were selected from 17 FAWE Rwanda partner schools based on their good performance in science subjects.

Lead Implementing Government(s)

Rwanda

Location(s)

Sub-Saharan Africa

Rwanda

Activity URL

https://www.mineduc.gov.rw/news-detail/mineduc-opens-a-mentoring-camp-for-girls-in-stem

Government Affiliation

Government-affiliated program

Years

2019 -

Partner(s)

Rwanda Association for Women in Science and Engineering - RAWISE

Ministry Affiliation

Ministry of Education

Funder(s)

COVID-19 Response

Unknown

Geographic Scope

National

Meets gender-transformative education criteria from the TES  

Unknown

Areas of Work Back to Top

Education areas

Other

  • Transition from school to work

Quality

  • Curricula/lesson plans
  • Teacher training

Skills

  • STEM

Cross-cutting areas

  • Digital literacy
  • Gender equality
  • Mentorship
  • Social and gender norms and beliefs

Program participants

Target Audience(s)

Girls in school, Youth

Age

Not applicable or unknown

School Enrolment Status

All in school

School Level

  • Lower secondary
  • Upper secondary

Other populations reached

  • Teachers - female
  • Teachers - male

Participants include

  • N/A

Program Approaches Back to Top

Mentoring/psychosocial support

  • Adult (non-teacher) mentors

Teaching

  • In-service teacher training – pedagogy general

Tutoring/strengthening academic skills

  • STEM - outside the classroom

Program Goals Back to Top

Education goals

  • Gender parity and non-discrimination are promoted at all subjects/education levels
  • Improved academic skills (literacy and numeracy)
  • Improved critical thinking

Cross-cutting goals

  • Increased agency and empowerment
  • Increased employment/job-related skills
  • More equitable gender attitudes and norms