Increase Slovak girls participation in technology

First workshops in Scratch coding language for girls aged 12 to 16 years, happened in Bratislava and Kosice. These workshops are the first steps in the Slovak national competition Scratch match, which will be organized by Aj Ty v IT from January 2017. We have received a lot of very positives feedbacks, which are really showing us, that young girls are attracted by technology and are able to code, discover and create!

The aim of the Scratch Match competition is to put together teams of three girls and push them in the cooperation and creation. The output of their work depends of their ideas – can be game, animation, video or what else. The public presentation at the end will bring them knowledge in soft and communication skills, which is not so common in these day in this age group.

Discussions with IT women professionals are one of our favorite activities. Girls need to have role models, need to heard their live stories. Travelling from Dallas center of AT&T, the President of Integrator Solution, Anne Chow, passed through Kosice at the east of Slovakia and discussed with high school girls from different schools. Thanks’!

The idea of attracting young girls into IT isn’t so common in Slovakia. It’s why we need to work a lot with companies, high schools, universities, others institutions. In September, two of our Board committee members, participated at Datalan University Day, focused on new technologies for education. Talk show, where they took a place, was very successful and raise a lot of questions from public.

During Slovak presidency in European parliament, the conference about e-skills job happened in Bratislava. It was a good opportunity for us to present our opinion about the topic of Women in STEM fields.