Mastercard Renews Commitment to Enabling STEM Education Opportunities for Women Across the UAE with Girls4Tech Program
With female inclusion, opportunity and empowerment being among its leading priorities around the world, Mastercard, a leading modern technology company in the global repayments industry, recently hosted its education program Girls4Tech in Dubai for the 3rd successive year.
Introduced in 2014, Girls4Tech is Mastercard's award-winning education program targeted at producing future problem solvers. The educational program was produced together with top engineers and engineers at Mastercard to instruct the foundations of STEM principles.
As part of the workshop that took place in Uptown School in Mirdif, a team of Mastercard volunteers collaborated with 50 pupils aged 10 to 12 to reveal them to a variety of STEM techniques, by demonstrating the exciting facets of these jobs in a fun and interesting layout at 3 specialized stations including formulas, digital merging and cryptology. Leveraging on the competence of Mastercard employees, the one-day hands-on questions program additionally used insights into exactly how the developing payment modern technologies are attached to STEM principles.
"For us at Mastercard, a much better world is an extra well balanced world where both genders are equipped with level playing fields, which in turn, positively affects the long-term positive growth of our economic situations. Our trademark education program, Girls4Tech , is an all-natural extension of our core worths to drive better women inclusion, specifically in STEM fields, where they are still mostly underrepresented.
By providing a very early instructional and awareness platform to young women, the program uses us a possibility to play an active role in nurturing the female leaders of tomorrow by prolonging the devices and resources they need to be in complete control of their future," said Beatrice Cornacchia, Head of Advertising And Marketing and Communications - Middle East and Africa, Mastercard.
Previously this month, Mastercard announced its goal to make use of the Girls4Tech platform to bring STEM education possibilities to 200,000 ladies aged 10-13 worldwide by 2020. According to this company-wide purpose, Mastercard has turned out a global marathon of STEM workshops in celebration of the International Day of the Girl 2017. To date, 11,000 ladies have benefited from the program, which has run in 7 languages consisting of indicator language, with greater than 1,000 Mastercard employees acting as coaches and role models in 13 countries.
In 2015, more than 1,400 girls visited Mastercard's Girls4Tech booth at the Emirates Structure ThinkScience Fair and discovered the world of big-data analytics and formulas, encryption, cryptology, and biometrics. In its 2nd year, Smart Cities module was additionally introduced to the program in order to align it with Dubai's desires to coming to be a Smart City.
