In an attempt to encourage more number of girls to take science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) as a career choice, IIT-H is hosting Vigyan Joyti, which is a two-week residential training program.
The program began on May 12 and is training 35 meritorious girls of class 11. Prof UB Desai, director, IIT Hyderabad, talking about the importance of program said “Girls participation in technology development is a must. This workshop by the Teaching and Learning Center at IITH and the faculty of IITH will help in achieving gender parity in engineering and technology profession.”
The training includes lectures, seminar, lab visit, hands-on sessions, do and discover, business quiz, students outing, personality development, yoga, newspaper reading and so on.
The program is funded by the department of science and technology and will deal with the mental, physical and emotional fitness of the children. The students will also be introduced to various labs such as 3D printing, robotics, tinkerer's, materials science, physics, chemistry, and others.
"Vigyan Jyothi Scholars program is addressing a key issue that despite the high priority that is placed on the STEM in schools, efforts to expand female interest and employment in the STEM and computer science are not working as well as intended. This is especially true in technology and engineering," said Deepthi Ravula, Chief executive officer of WE- Hub.
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