Australian Girls´Day
Future Prospects for Girls
The Girls' Day - the biggest career orientation project for girls worldwide - comes to Australia! The aim of this campaign is to expand the range of career choices of women and to promote diversity in the workplace. For the first time in Australia, girls from years 7 and 8 have the opportunity to visit companies and universities and accompany women in STEM careers. They can actively participate in projects and gain insight into innovations that are related to Germany.
More Diversity and Equal Opportunities
In Australia only 24.5% of STEM graduates are women. A lot of female students choose their profession depending on gender, influenced by social role models and not based on their individual interests and skills. Girls’ Day offers female students the opportunity to look into professions they don´t give enough consideration.
Meet Rou Jun Toh, one of the inspiring women in STEM who will be hosting students on Girls’ Day.
Date, Registration & Competition
Girls' Day takes place on 16 November 2018. Girls in years 7 and 8 can participate. German language skills are not required. The students can register directly on this website. All the students are invited to participate in the competition:
Girls' Day Competition
Information for Companies and Universities
The Goethe-Institut invites companies and universities to open their doors on 16 November and to organise a Girls'Day for female Year 7 & 8 students. More information is available here:
Information for Girls´Day Hosts
Girls' Day Programs
In the afternoon, you will continue with a visit of Monash University where you'll get to know scientists from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and the Biomedicine Discovery Institute. Not only will you get to know researchers from all over the world, you will find out how strongly Australia's researchers are connected globally.
Where:
Monash University, Claytion Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, Victoria 3800
When:
10.00am - 2.30pm
This program is booked out.
Dr Marie Greyer
Microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi, are “in us, on us and all around us”. However, they are so small, that they are unable to be seen by our naked eye. In this workshop you will be able to use a microscope to magnify them up to x 1000. Interestingly, many of these microbes are actually normal inhabitants of our bodies, including on our skin and in our digestive tract. Transmission of these foreign microbes is often via contaminated hands. You will learn the importance of good hand washing as an effective means of reducing microbial contamination of the hands, and consequently, reducing the potential for disease transmission.
Where:
Peter Doherty Institute, 792 Elizabeth St, Melbourne VIC 3000
When:
10.00am - 2.30pm
This program is booked out!
Where:
Gruen Eco Design, 19 Ceylon Street, Nunawading
When:
10.00am to 2.30pm
This program is booked out.
Where:
Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, Western Australia 6150
When:
10.00am - 2.30pm
Places available: 4
When: 10.00 am to 2.30 pm
Where: 12 Creek Street, Brisbane
Places available: 18
Registration
Please register until 25 October 2018