Today, Mastercard and Scholastic announced plans to help raise awareness of STEM-opportunities among all students, reaching 20,000 classrooms, including 300,000 girls nationwide through hands-on, in-class materials.
The free materials are based on Mastercard’s Girls4Tech program, which provides schools and community organizations with resources to equip young girls with the skills they need as future professionals in STEM fields.
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Mastercard and Scholastic will work with teachers to adopt the Girls4Tech materials through a dedicated microsite on Scholastic.com, magazines and in-classroom guides. Teachers will have access to lesson plans and hands-on demos related to algorithms, encryption, fraud detection, data analysis, digital convergence and more.
The initiative also includes two contests: the Tech4Innovation contest encourages students to develop a future digital innovation to solve a real-world problem and the Teacher Sweepstakes asks educators to explain why their school would benefit from a Girls4Tech workshop event where students participate in activities based on innovation and technology.
For more information on Girls4Tech, visit https://www.facebook.com/mastercardgirls4tech/.
