Girls' Day 2021: campaign day for the promotion of young talent
The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics and the DLR_School_Lab at the DLR site in Oberpfaffenhofen are offering interested young female scientists an exciting insight into space research as part of Girls' Day on 22 April.
Career guidance 4.0 - this is the motto of Girls'Day 2021, a day of action against gender stereotypes in the workplace that takes place nationwide on 22 April. The aim of the project is to broaden the range of career choices for girls. Many schoolgirls make their career choices based on their gender, influenced by social role models. Girls' Day offers schoolgirls their first insights into previously unknown working environments. This low-threshold, direct contact with companies and businesses, the exchange with women who already work in the professions and their own practical experience are the big plus points of the day of action. This gives schoolgirls the opportunity to choose their career and study programme not only according to traditional, traditional attributions, but to try out different options and ultimately make their choice according to their individual interests and skills - free from gender stereotypes.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, career and study guidance is also currently a challenge. This makes virtual programmes all the more important. Supervised by students from the DLR_School_Lab, the participants learn how to programme a robot and explore the research laboratories of the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics on their own as part of a virtual scavenger hunt. The main focus is on the fascination for these technologies.
Tobias Schüttler, Head of the DLR_School_Lab in Oberpfaffenhofen, says: "During our online workshops and guided tours, we take the girls into the laboratories where state-of-the-art robotic systems are researched and into the German Space Operations Centre. The fact that Girls' Day is being organised completely digitally this year is not an obstacle - on the contrary, our visit is taking us into the world of digital beings."
