STEM_for_Teens Launch

Google and 13 Spanish academies and societies come together to promote STEM careers among young people with the #STEM_for_Teens contest

• This scientific-technological alliance challenges Secondary School students to a YouTube video contest to promote STEM careers in their generation, especially among girls.
• This is the first project that unites 13 iconic science and technology institutions in Spain for the promotion, together with Google, of the STEM branch, whose demand for profiles will grow by 14% in Europe in 2020.

Madrid, December 19, 2018 – Today #STEM_for_Teens is launched, a national contest in which 3rd and 4th ESO students will become YouTube creators for a day to motivate other young people to study STEM careers (from the acronym in English Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

The students, in teams of 3 to 5 people, must record a 3-minute video in which they will reflect on the advantages of studying these careers, specifically specializing in engineering, mathematics, physics, chemistry or computer science. This project is open to all students, but puts special attention to adolescent girls whose presence in these professions is notably lower than that of men. In fact, in some areas such as Information and Communication Technologies they represent only 12% of the student body, according to the OECD.

The objective of #STEM_for_Teens is to promote STEM vocations through the young people themselves so that they can reflect on the job opportunities that these careers offer. According to a CEDEFOP study, the demand for these profiles is expected to increase by 14% in Europe by 2020.

Students will have until March 15 to record their videos and register on the website stemforeens.org. The projects best valued by the Jury, which will be made up of members of the royal societies and academies, will receive Google technological devices as prizes that will be awarded at an event that will take place in Madrid during the second week of April.

With the support of Google, #STEM_for_Teens is born, an initiative of the Computer Science Society of Spain (SCIE) shared with the Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Spanish Society of Mathematics, Spanish Federation of Mathematics Teachers Societies (FESPM), Royal Spanish Society of Physics, Royal Spanish Society of Chemistry. The Conference of Directors and Deans of Computer Engineering (CODDll), the General Council of Professional Colleges of Computer Engineering (CCll), the Andalusian Association of Computer Science Teachers (AAPRI), the Association of Computer Science Teachers of the Valencian Community (APICV) also collaborate. , Association of Computer Science Teachers of Madrid (APIMadrid), Association of Computer Science Teachers of Cantabria (APIC), Association of Computer Science Teachers of Castilla-La Mancha (ARPICM), and the Junior Achievement Foundation.

Further information:  stemforteens.org