Familiarizing with technology on free-choice course
An introductory course on technology was organized for girls from Karakallio school during the first operational months of the project in 2003. Girls, the ninth-formers, attending this course familiarized themselves with printing technique and put together a newspaper at EVTEK University of Applied Sciences. This course was managed and planned by six female students in media technology. The aim of this course was to introduce printing to the girls starting from editing the story proceeding after many phases to image processing and layout ending to printing the newspaper in the EVTEK University of Applied Sciences printing house. During this course, e.g., the newspaper “Karaset” was printed. Its theme was women and technology.
An information technology club was organised for girls at Kuitinmäki school, it was run by female engineering students. Members of the club visited Helsinki University of Technology, the Department of Electrical and Communications Engineering.
At the Lintuvaara school a computer course that was organized for the sixth-former girls, was quickly fully booked. This example tells how easily girls become interested in technology, if they are given a possibility to look into it at their own pace and time. Earlier only boys attended the free choice courses on information technology, even if they were meant for both boys and girls.