According to a recent Unesco report, “women's careers in science still come up against gender bias”. Based on the fundamental principle that access to science for women requires inclusion and support, Savanturiers - École de la Recherche, CRI's educational program, is working alongside the L'Oréal Foundation in the “For Girls in Science”.
FGIS is an educational program supported and financed by the L'Oréal Foundation, designed to make scientific careers more attractive and to encourage girls to take up scientific careers by breaking down preconceived ideas about women and STEM (Science Technology, Engineering & Mathematics).
The program offers high-school girls in their second and first years of secondary school the chance to take part in a year-long program of extracurricular coaching and support, punctuated by inspiring encounters and a range of cultural and scientific activities. Each girl will be mentored by an award-winning scientist. For Women In Science, laboratory technician or other scientific functions.
As part of the FGIS program, CRI is contributing its educational expertise to the design and implementation of the selection and commitment procedures for the high-school girls, a fun launch day dedicated to scientific challenges, and a stay with an ambitious scientific and cultural program for these future scientists.
The official launch of the program will take place on June 2 at CRI. On this occasion, participants will play an Espace Game concocted by CRI's GameLab.
AN ESCAPE GAME TO DISCOVER INVISIBLE WOMEN SCIENTISTS
“For several years now, CRI has been conducting archaeological research into a mysterious fresco. Our chief historian has determined that this is a unique work of art depicting the portraits of 15 women who have left their mark on science. As you can see, in the course of our excavations, we've managed to reconstruct part of the fresco, but the search has been at a standstill for 6 months now.”
And so begins the game “The incomplete fresco”on the occasion of For Girls In Science, designed by GameLab's Jérémy HA. For a limited time, players will have to unearth women scientists whose major discoveries have been invisible over the years. In this way, players will meet Ada Lovelace, first programmer, Katherine Johnson, physicist, mathematician and space engineer, who calculated the trajectories of Apollo11, or even Sau Lan Wu, a physicist who made major discoveries about subatomic particles.
So many women who have had to face up to sexist prejudices, in a world where they were largely in the minority, and yet have forever changed the face of science.
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