TY - CHAP

T1 - Development and Implementation of Technical Interventions to Motivate Young Females for STEM Studies

AU - Guerne, Marie Gillian

AU - Block, Brit Maren

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

PY - 2025

Y1 - 2025

N2 - In order to address the problem of the structural underrepresentation of women in STEM degree programs motivational projects for study orientation are seen as a possibility to increase the proportion of female students. Therefore, this article deals with the theory-based development and implementation of a technical intervention to motivate female students to study a STEM program. The study is based on the design-based research approach, including a systematic literature analysis as well as qualitative interviews. The aim of the systematic literature analysis is to determine the current state of research on the framework conditions for motivational projects for female students in STEM subjects. The article provides an overview of the theoretical framework on which the program is based and outlines its structure. The program was implemented and tested for the first time in January 2024 with 61 pupils. Initial results and feedback from participants are positive. This paper explains the robotics workshop as an exemplary subject. Robotics has become increasingly important in industrial production in recent decades and plays a crucial role in modern manufacturing. Participants learn in a game-based way and acquire basic programming and robotics skills.

AB - In order to address the problem of the structural underrepresentation of women in STEM degree programs motivational projects for study orientation are seen as a possibility to increase the proportion of female students. Therefore, this article deals with the theory-based development and implementation of a technical intervention to motivate female students to study a STEM program. The study is based on the design-based research approach, including a systematic literature analysis as well as qualitative interviews. The aim of the systematic literature analysis is to determine the current state of research on the framework conditions for motivational projects for female students in STEM subjects. The article provides an overview of the theoretical framework on which the program is based and outlines its structure. The program was implemented and tested for the first time in January 2024 with 61 pupils. Initial results and feedback from participants are positive. This paper explains the robotics workshop as an exemplary subject. Robotics has become increasingly important in industrial production in recent decades and plays a crucial role in modern manufacturing. Participants learn in a game-based way and acquire basic programming and robotics skills.

KW - Motivation program

KW - STEM Study Orientation

KW - Women in Engineering

KW - Engineering

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=105001334885&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-83523-0_14

DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-83523-0_14

M3 - Article in conference proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:105001334885

SN - 978-3-031-83522-3

T3 - Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

SP - 149

EP - 159

BT - Futureproofing Engineering Education for Global Responsibility

A2 - Auer, Michael E.

A2 - Rüütmann, Tiia

PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH

CY - Cham

T2 - 27th International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning, ICL 2024

Y2 - 24 September 2024 through 27 September 2024

ER -