"My dream is that what I do is to improve someone's quality of life."
Victoria Peterson, one of the Argentine Women in STEAM, tells how young women in the country can be part of interdisciplinary teams and create solutions that have a positive impact on society. Text: Julieta La Casa Being a woman, Argentinean, scientist and leader of projects that improve people's quality of life, is it a possible combination? [...]
Chicas en Tecnología: regional expansion, growth and a new Board of Directors
As a further step in its consolidation process, Chicas en Tecnología welcomes its new Board of Directors. The people that make up this space work on the institutional strategy and accompany the Executive Board in its implementation. In this renovation, a team of professionals with wide experience in the areas of social [...]
#ComunidadCET: From users to creators of technology with social impact
Esmeralda is 17 years old and lives in Tancacha, Córdoba. In 2018 and 2019 she participated in our CET Clubs program at her school and, since then, she continues with her training to follow her own path in technology. During 2020, as a graduate and member of the #ComunidadCET, she accessed a scholarship to learn web development and [...]
UX/UI experience
Chicas en Tecnología, together with Banco Galicia, opens registration for Experiencia UX/UI, its new program aimed at women interested in starting or continuing their professional career in technology. It is an immersive, free and free proposal for women between 19 and 30 years old, from the City of Buenos Aires and Greater Buenos Aires, [...]
International recognition for innovative and regional solutions created in pandemics: Beiersdorf award to Melina Masnatta
The Executive Director and Co-Founder of Chicas en Tecnología is recognized as part of Ashoka's network of social entrepreneurs. The international company Beiersdorf awarded the vision, leadership and sustainable innovation strategy of Melina Masnatta through Chicas en Tecnología so that adolescent women in the region can access opportunities for social entrepreneurship.
CET 2020 Breakfast: Innovation for Action
Chicas en Tecnología held the third edition of the CET Breakfast for organizations and companies of the technological entrepreneurial ecosystem. With an online proposal 100%, which allowed the participation of 80 referents and specialists from 6 Latin American countries, the event promoted the meeting between organizations and companies and strengthened the common goal of building an ecosystem [...]
Open data: Knowing to transform
Making stories visible from specific data, opening paths to new research, dimensioning contexts based on local data and disseminating actions that seek to reduce the gender gap in technology are just some of the possibilities that open up from the new data visualization project presented by Chicas en Tecnología (CET) [...]
Chicas Líderes en Tecnología: borderless access to the technological world
Working in the field of technology entrepreneurship or training in technology are proposals that take on a new meaning in the current global context, marked by a pandemic that accelerated and deepened the digitization of work, professional, domestic, training and entertainment activities. That is why Chicas en Tecnología decided to adapt Chicas Líderes en Tecnología, [...]
International recognition for Girls in Technology
The organization is the winner in the “Science Outreach” category of the Inspiring & Innovating Science Awards 2020. Chicas en Tecnología is the winning organization in the Inspiring & Innovating Science Awards 2020, granted by Nature Research and Estée Lauder Companies. The recognition obtained in the category “Scientific Dissemination” seeks to highlight organizations that [...]
#HistoriasCET: Gladys Cabral
Gladys has been a referent of Chicas en Tecnología since 2016, when she joined #PUMM encouraged by her students. Determined to generate more opportunities for them, she bets on training as a path of motivation and social commitment. Her story is that of the search for new knowledge to continue growing professionally and, along the way, she [...]