Section 3. Attraction

Identifying allies and building networks

W-STEM Women Library

Interviews with women in STEM areas. Videos between 3-7 minutes in which a woman related to the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics tells her experience. There are 350 videos subtitled in English and Spanish.

Interview guidelines and protocol

Profiling tool questionnaire

A tool to identify potential girls in STEM, we share with you the instructions to develop your own profile identification tool and the template to collect the data.

Designing and running an attraction campaign plan

W-STEM guidelines for the implementation of online attraction campaigns

Attraction Campaigns-Global Schedule of Activities Template

Template Attraction Campaigns Protocol (remote campaigns, face-to-face campaigns) (Spanish)

Examples of attraction campaigns (Spanish)

Attraction Campaigns to enrol women in STEM: Benchmarking round on strategies and outcomes

Extend

Success stories during the pandemic

International Roundtable for Girls in ICT
Women in Mathematics Day
Course: Introduction to robotics with arduino

Publications

Multimedia Analysis of Spanish Female Role Models in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

Verdugo-Castro, S., García-Holgado, A., Sánchez Gómez, M. C., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2021). Multimedia Analysis of Spanish Female Role Models in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. Sustainability, 12(22), Article 12612. doi:10.3390/su132212612

Using Student Profiles to Motivate and Understand How to Attract Women to Computer Science

Marín-Raventós, G., Romero, R. M., & Monge-Soto, A. L. (2020). Using Student Profiles to Motivate and Understand How to Attract Women to Computer Science. In G. Rodríguez-Morales & A. García-Holgado (Eds.), Proceedings of the XII Latin American Women in Computing Congress 2020 (LAWCC 2020), Loja, Ecuador, October 19, 2020 (pp. 1-12). CEUR-WS.org. http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2709/paper63.pdf

The experience of women students in engineering and mathematics careers: a focus group study

García-Holgado, A., Verdugo-Castro, S., Dominguez, A., Hernández-Armenta, I., García-Peñalvo, F. J., Vázquez-Ingelmo, A., & Sánchez-Gómez, M. C. (2021). The experience of women students in engineering and mathematics careers: a focus group study. In T. Klinger, C. Kollmitzer, & A. Pester (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), (21-23 April 2021, Vienna, Austria) (pp. 50-56). IEEE. doi:10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9454079

Facilitating access to the role models of women in STEM: W-STEM mobile app

This paper presents the main activities developed in the project and the results achieved by the consortium, particularly those of the Colombian universities by way of illustration.
García-Holgado, A., Verdugo-Castro, S., Sánchez Gómez, M. C., & García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2020). Facilitating access to the role models of women in STEM: W-STEM mobile app. In P. Zaphiris & A. Ioannou (Eds.), Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Designing, Developing and Deploying Learning Experiences. HCII 2020 (pp. 466–476). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-50513-4_35

Attraction campaigns posters