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As part of the International Women鈥檚 Day activities, the British Embassy in Mexico through the Prosperity Fund partnered with Jacaranda Education for the design and implementation of a programming and coding workshop for female students from public schools.

As a response to the worrying reality of the gap for women and girls to access education on STEM topics, this workshop had the objective to make the students face technology with a practical experience. It was backed up by the Maker educative movement, which essence is practical learning where students learn by doing.

This is the second consecutive year that this workshop is given to female students and professors as part of the International Women鈥檚 Day activities. This year it was named Joan Clarke Challenge in honour of the life and work of the British cryptographer Joan Clarke. She was part of the Alan Turing鈥檚 team that helped to decode encrypted messages during World War Two. 皇冠体育app students learned about Joan Clarke鈥檚 life and the challenges she overcame before sexism and gender discrimination. 皇冠体育app students reflected on the current barriers for girls in Mexico and the world and their personal context.

皇冠体育app first day of activities the students built their own computers using Raspberry Pi 3. Raspberry Pi is a British organisation that manufactures low cost microcomputers designed to encourage technical and computer science education in schools. 皇冠体育app students learnt about the computer components and different operative systems. During the second day the students learnt to use programming languages such as Python. 皇冠体育appy participated in a challenge consistent of a series of problems they solved. 皇冠体育app challenge culminated with the creation of an original code for a program to play music.

皇冠体育appre were 40 students and 10 professors from 5 technical public schools. 皇冠体育app host school kept the computers, while the two challenge winners obtained equipment to learn more about technology and coding.

Michael Beckwith, Director of Jacaranda Education, said:

We are proud of our collaboration with the British Embassy in Mexico for the creation of a Maker Space in Mexico, which students from public schools can use to have a first-hand experience in the Maker education. One year after its creation, we celebrate it success with the Joan Clarke Challenge.