Project supported in 2024
Les STIM au féminin
Project Summary
Les STIM au féminin is a digital marketing campaign aimed at girls in high school or CEGEP, and their parents, to encourage or confirm their commitment to programs of study leading to scientific careers in STEM, and more specifically, in fields where women are less represented.
This PIM project was financially supported by:
Partners
acceSciences, action concertée pour la culture et l'éducation en sciences
L'AESTQ, association pour l'enseignement de la science et de la technologie au Québec
CCMM, Chambre de commerce du Montréal métropolitain
Concertation Montréal, CMTL
Regroupement des cégeps de Montréal, RCM
Project Leaders
BENOIT PAGÉ, directeur, Pôle interordres de Montréal (bpage@poleia.quebec)
HÉLÈNE MATHIEU, coordonnatrice, AcceSciences, Regroupement des cégeps de Montréal (hmathieu@rcm.quebec)
Three creative concepts
Deployed on social networks, Les STIM au féminin proposes three creative concepts to both raise awareness among young women of pathways into science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs, and showcase possible careers. “Fais comme elle” ("Do as she does") invites the public to meet remarkable women working in the scientific fields, recounting their achievements in astrophysics, artificial intelligence and environmental science. “Trust the Numbers” tells us that, on average, girls do better in school than boys, and where there are fewer girls than boys, they do at least as well. The third concept is to “Add your ’E’” to professions where women are underrepresented, encouraging girls to become engineers, researchers, and computer scientists, by offering inspiring role models. The campaign has its own Facebook page : Les STIM au féminin.
In addition to pushing these messages on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube, the campaign was supported by twenty video capsules. Lively, dynamic, inspiring and highly instructive, each capsule features the testimony of one, two or three women engaged in technical or scientific studies or careers. They talk about their motivation, the challenges they face, and then encourage listeners to go for it and follow their passion.
The digital campaign ended with an event organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Metropolitan Montréal as part of the Techno Bell Visionaries serie, featuring Sasha Luccioni, head of AI and climate research at Hugging Face.
Twenty Video Capsules
Pedagogical resources
The Association pour l'enseignement de la science et de la technologie au Québec (AESTQ) highlights twelve of the twenty vignettes on its website, along with pedagogical resources for teaching staff.