Paulina Modlitba Söderlund (project manager, Tekla), Robyn Carlsson (artist), Sophia Hober (Dean, KTH). Photo: Sara Arnald.
During one day should girls between 11 and 18 years to test the robot programming, game design, digital visualization and 3D printing. They may build, experiment and explore.
The initiator of the festival is Robyn Carlsson. In 2013 she received the KTH great price, partly because her way of using new technology in their music but also an entrepreneur. Now she wants to do something that inspires girls who are curious about technology.
- Tekla feels like something important on so many levels. It is crucial that more women can educate themselves in areas that control the development of society in Sweden. More girls in technology is a gender issue, but also something that will be so many girls and their curiosity and self-benefit. We have tried to put together a festival that will give participants the opportunity to discover something they might not otherwise come in contact with in an environment that is both safe and challenging, she says.
The girls who come to Tekla encouraged to Norda loose, but it is definitely not just for hard-core “tech geeks”.
– We discussed what the word nerd really stands for, it has certainly had a negative connotation. But it is all about you are interested in one thing and focus on it. And that there is something strange about it, says Sophia Hober, Dean at KTH.
To give a new image of what technology is, lifting female role models and give more girls the opportunity to find just how they can use technology. The day will offer workshops, inspirational speech and music. They have space for 200 girls but the idea is that the festival will live on and become an annual event.
– It is for girls who do not even believe that technology is for them, we want to show that technology is a means rather than an end. We want to expand and modernize the image of what art is. Clearly we at KTH want to see that more girls are looking for here, but it is so much bigger than that. To broaden the picture of an engineer is a man with a screwdriver in his hand, she says.
Despite the fact that male dominance in the technology world discussed for years is slow . In the IT sector is only 20 percent of KTH’s students are women.
– The a democracy and social issue. Now that everything is built on technology, it is important that young girls are a part of it. It’s part of how we express ourselves, the technology is society today. It’s not only develops sitting and going on solutions, it is the users and the present, says Sophia Hober.
April 18th is the time. The festival is organized by the Royal Institute of Technology, together with Robyn and companies like Spotify and Google. They take the help of the organization Popkollo which several years ago organizes courses and camps for girls in the music field. Sounds interesting, check out more about the festival on teklafestival.se
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