During September 2021, I participated in the workshop series Methods, Theory, and Taking Action through Gender and Feminisms in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
In Event 3 about Learning Methods, I presented the a study about “Design Techniques to promote gender literacy in digital fabrication with primary school students” and facilitated a challenge on Designing Interactive Genderless Toys. Instructions can be found here: shorturl.at/tyHJM
During the first two weeks of July, I faciliate together with Laura Malinverni a summer camp for 20 girls from Barcelona in which they learned about the basics of 3D printing, robotics and coding. This hands-on workshop introduced them to the world of Digital Fabrication. The #Girlstech Summer Camp was co-organized by the American Space Barcelona and the Department of Information and Communication Technologies Engineering (ETIC) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
I regularly participate in the organization of workshops to inspire teenagers in digital fabrication. Another workshop was held in April 2017 at the American Space Barcelona and focused particularly on a critical reflection upon how technology influenced our personal lives. In June 2017, Maria Santos and I also participated in the Oracle4Girls which aimed to attrack and retain girls in STEM and we conducted a second workshop in this line.
This evening I discussed together with Cecilia Tham (Makers of Barcelona), Nuria Mir (GFT IT Consulting), Elena Panizza (AdMojo), Eugenia Gargallo (Inspira’t), Marta Verde Baqueiro and Ana Freire (Universitat Pompeu) in a town hall discussion future goals and practices to move toward leadership equality. The event was sponsored by IED Barcelona and WebVisions.
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GirlsInLab is an organization of volunteers in Barcelona which offers free educational and hands-on STEM workshops and tutorials for young girls to promote their interest in technology and in pursuing STEM-related careers.
On 29th November 2015, I participated as volunteer at the UPF Hackathon for girls between 7 and 17 years.
This video shows how the girls learnt to program and to create their own ideas with Scratch, robotics, AppInventor, Drawbots, 3D design, 3D printing and Makey Makey.
(You can get an impression of my Scratch Jr workshop from 0:58 min.)