The Identification of Girls' Attitudes to STEM via Science Camp "Lab Technology and Everyday Life Consumption"
2022
Abstrakt
The "Lab Technology and Everyday Life Consumption" a two-day science camp is one of the national activities of the European project Empower Girls to Embrace their Digital and Entrepreneurial Potential (GEM), which aims to promote the interest of girls aged 12 to 16 in STEM and the related field of ICT in the Czech Republic. In this paper, we focus on the description of preparation, implementation, and evaluation of the camp, as well as on the results of the evaluation of girls' attitudes identified in questionnaire surveys conducted in two runs, which took place at the Department of Chemistry and Chemistry Education, Faculty of Education, Charles University at the end of August and October.