How to increase girls’ participation in STEM disciplines?Gender fair teaching good practices

June 7th, 2018 | IFEN | Walferdange, Luxembourg

INSPIRING GIRLS

Daria Petca

Professional Foundation, Romania

Daria’s Profile

• Colegiul National “Unirea” Targu-Mures

• Professional Foundation

• National Contest of Informatics

• National Olympiad of Informatics

• The Intercounty Informatics Contest “Grigore Moisil”

• Robotics Club

• Meteo Station

• In the Lime Light

• The Google Challenge Scholarship

• Encouraging Everyone

• Internship

• Hobbies and Interests

• Quotations

Colegiul National “Unirea” Targu-Mures

• Student at “Unirea” National College,Targu-Mures

• Informatics and Mathematics majors

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Professional Foundation

• Student at Professional at Cambridge Exam Preparation Course

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National Contest of Informatics

• At 13 years old I took part in

programming courses and

at 14 years old I received a Honorary Certificate at

the National Contest of Informatics.

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National Olympiad of Informatics

• This year(11th grade) after three years of hard work, I received a Bronze Medal at the National Olympiad of Informatics, the most prestigious contest in our country.

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The Intercounty Informatics Contest “Grigore Moisil”

• This year I also received a Bronze Medal and an Honorary Certificate at the Intercounty Informatics Contest “Grigore Moisil”

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Robotics Club

• In the 9th grade I was involved in my Physics teacher’s initiative of creating a Robotics Club in our High School

• My involvement consisted of gathering sponsorships, writing projects in order to equip our club

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Meteo Station

• This year we succeeded in gathering

about 2600 Euros via the Stiintescu Fund that we used

to buy equipment such as 3D printers and Arduino

and Raspberry Pi platforms.

• We built a Meteo Station so that everyone from Targu-Mures can know the weather any time while

using the site: http://statiemeteo.dyndns.org:443/

or the app that I am currently developing.

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http://statiemeteo.dyndns.org:443/

In the Lime Light

• This year we have been interviewed twice

by the local television to present and to

talk about our Robotics Club:

https://youtu.be/_e4N9B5kyTI

https://youtu.be/hQOo9gTUDeE

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https://youtu.be/_e4N9B5kyTIhttps://youtu.be/hQOo9gTUDeE

The Google Challenge Scholarship

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• In October I received the news that I have been selected among 10000 people for the 1st Stage of the Google Developer Challenge Scholarship.

• In February I received the news that I have been selected among 1000 people for the 2nd

Stage of the same scholarship.

Encouraging Everyone

• I was involved in two attempts of bringing the scholars community closer together and encouraging everyone at the same time:

https://youtu.be/Zhtdf1ixSdc

https://youtu.be/PSkipJ6H3cs

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https://youtu.be/Zhtdf1ixSdchttps://youtu.be/PSkipJ6H3cs

Red Cross Volunteer

• As a Red Cross Volunteer I helped children from less favourablebackgrounds who do not have the financial possibilities of studying programming.

• After six months of teaching I was so pleasantly surprised by their progress.

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Internship

• Last summer I did an internship at Smartsoft where I learned how to make Android applications using Java.

• Two years ago I did an internship at Reeawhere I learned how to make games using C#.

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Hobbies and Interests

• Reading and writing(I have written articles for our school’s magazine and co-written a book with my Romanian teacher)

• Listening to music

• Jogging

• Designing 3D pieces

• Making handmade objects

• Taking pictures

• Baking sweets

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Quotations:

• “Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.”

– Ada Lovelace–

The first programmer and my role model

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