Covestro, a global manufacturer of high-performance polymer materials, inaugurated STEM4GirlsFestival2018 at the Nehru Science Center, Mumbai to promote Stem education among girls. The company along with Greenlight for Girls, Nehru Science Centre and Chandra Mohan Foundation presented the third edition of the Stem workshop which is being conducted in six cities with the first workshop held in Mumbai from October 8-13 2018.
The aim is to give one more reason to celebrate with festival2018 by involving over 3000 girl students across India in science experiments and interaction.
An MHRD report shows that only 8.52% of the girls enrolled in higher education were pursuing bachelor degrees in engineering or technology in 2012-13. This is a major concern as the loser in this scenario is not just the women who do not get a chance to chase their dreams but also science itself, which fails to benefit from other points of view. On the contrary year after year, in school exams, we hear of how girls have outshone boys, but when it comes to those who take up research in later life, the number of women is minuscule.
This means that many of our best brains that showed the maximum potential do not pick research as a career. The programme will focus on teaching girls in the age group of 11 -15 years with various Stem-based concepts.
