Women's Science and Technology at the Technological Park will bring together 500 students to promote scientific careers

VALENCIA, 27 Dec. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The EGM Parc Tecnològic Paterna, in collaboration with the City Council of Paterna (Valencia), will celebrate the Science and Technology in Women project on January 10, a meeting that will bring together 500 students in the third and fourth years of Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) from the educational centers Liceo Hispano, Dominicas Paterna, IES La Canyada, IES Peset Aleixandre, Mas Camarena and Regina Carmeli of this municipality.

This event, which will take place at the Students Resort Mas Camarena, is an initiative of the Association of Technology and Science Parks of Spain (APTE) and seeks to promote the study of scientific-technological careers, especially among female students, as reported by the EGM Parc Tecnològic Paterna in a statement.

The proposal is celebrating its sixth edition in Spain and for the second time it is being held in Valencia, with the aim of helping to reduce the existing gender gap in scientific, technological, engineering and mathematical careers.

To this end, talks will be given by female scientists or technologists working at companies in the Paterna Technology Park that will serve as an inspiration and model for the students, as reported by the organization in a statement.

For this edition we have Samira Khodayar, director of the Meteorology and Climatology area of ​​the Center for Mediterranean Environmental Studies, CEAM; Patricia Pons, researcher in the field of immersive technologies and natural user interfaces at ITI, a private technology center specialized in ICT; Laura Martí, decarbonization leader of the Plastics Technology Institute, AIMPLAS and Mayte Gil, CEO of Genomic Systems, Synlab Group. The comedian Mari Marcos will energize the day with a touch of humor and fun.

In addition, robotics workshops will be held in each of the educational centers run by the Future Kids school in Paterna. These workshops aim to help students develop a proposal that helps improve the sustainability of the Technology Park through the programming of different prototypes.

In this way, the students who will attend these sessions will have the opportunity to present an original project for the Innovative Proposals to the Challenges of Sustainable Development contest, whose winner will be selected to participate in a national contest, the organization added. To do this, they will receive training through robotics workshops that they can use as a basis to develop their proposals.

Other activities that have been prepared for the participating students are the exhibitions 'Women who changed the world' and 'Women who change the world', "with female references who have developed essential contributions to humanity and those who do so today in day".