Arduino Quest 2023

June, 2023.- Niñas Pro with the Millennium Institute Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data open registration for a new version of the new version of the Arduino Quest, in which participants can learn to program on Arduino and make a project with electronic components.

This is a completely free and online workshop, and those who participate and persevere in the course, will have at their disposal an Arduino board to learn how to program them and unleash their creativity. The workshop consists of 3 phases: theoretical classes, a simulation project and finally, the creation of a real project with electronic components. These phases are consecutive, i.e., you move on to the next phase if you successfully complete the previous one, it is structured to provide a good learning experience.

Arduinos are open source electronic creation boards, based on free-to-use hardware and software for creators and developers. With these, you can create and materialize ideas for technological applications, such as automation and robotics. Here you can see some of the projects of the past years and here the complete online course of the previous version.

Niñas Pro began in 2016 as a university activity carried out by a group of female students from the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics of the University of Chile to increase the interest of girls in programming, actively seeking that all girls in Chile experience science and technology free of gender stereotypes. Today, the organization is constituted as a non-profit association and has a network of more than 80 volunteers distributed in various regions of the country with the support of different universities, companies and organizations interested in reducing the gender gap in STEM.

The Arduino Quest and IMFD's collaboration with Girls Pro are part of the IMFD Outreach initiatives, funded by ANID, in which IMFD actively participates to actively promote bridging the gender gap in STEM.

It is worth noting that in Chile, women graduates of UNDERGRADUATE in STEM reach barely 7%. They also represent 35% of the research personnel and their salaries are up to 23% lower than those of men, according to the second version of the Gender Radiography study of the Ministry of Science and Knowledge.

Space for Arduino Quest 2023 is limited and open until June 24, selected students will be notified the week of June 26, and the workshop will be held July 7-28.

More information and registration at this link.