Student Challenge for Secondary Schoolgirls
The EIT Community initiative Girls Go Circular aims to reduce the digital and STEM gender gap by equipping schoolgirls aged 14-19 across Europe with digital and entrepreneurial skills.
The Women and Girls in STEM Forum is the project’s yearly event, organised in collaboration with the EIT and the European Commission. The next edition will take place in Budapest in October 2024, and will see the participation of more than 20 European countries. Students who participated in the Girls Go Circular Project now have the opportunity to join the Student Challenge and try to win a trip to Budapest to attend the Forum!
Rules for Participation
Students participating in the challenge must fulfil all the following requirements:
- Be a schoolgirl aged 14-19.
- Be a participant or alumna of the Girls Go Circular project.
- Form a team composed of three girls. Remember, we are working together to increase women's participation in STEM!
The Challenge
For this fourth edition, Girls Go Circular is inviting its female students and alumnae to dive into the world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and explore its potential to solve real-life societal challenges. Today’s world is increasingly influenced by AI, and young people need to understand how it works to critically assess its impact on society, use it ethically, and mitigate potential risks. This Student Challenge aims to equip students with essential AI knowledge, boost their creative and problem-solving skills, and empower them to enact positive change.
Participants will need to work in teams of three girls and come up with an idea for an AI tool to help reducing gender inequalities in the area of their choice (education, employment, sciences, arts, sports and more).
To showcase their idea, students will have to fill out a Design Thinking slide deck to develop their AI concept and to present it in a 3-minute pitch video in English. Students do not have to build an actual AI, but they will be asked to think about the purpose of their AI, the data needed to train their AI model, and the ethical and ecological implications surrounding its development (potential biases, privacy concerns, energy-consumption and more). Coding is not required for this Challenge.
As a reward, one team from each project country will be invited to attend the Forum in person in Budapest in October 2024! The travel costs for each selected team and one accompanying teacher will be covered by Girls Go Circular. The top three teams will even get to present their idea and compete for the Challenge Finale during the Women and Girls in STEM Forum!
The deadline to participate in the Student Challenge is 17 June 2024.
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