On this Monday 7^th January 2019, the Ministry of Education in a collaboration with UNESCO and FAWE Rwanda opened a six days Mentoring Boot Camp for Girls in STEM, under the Theme: “Girls Step in STEM for a million opportunities”.

While officiating the opening of this camp, the Deputy Director General for Rwanda Education Board Ms. TUSIIME Angelique encouraged girls to excel and succeed in Education especially in science she called them to overcome all the challenges that can be barriers for their success as girls like gender-based violence, early pregnancy, early marriage etc.

One of the objectives of the STEM Mentoring camp is to inspire and nurture secondary school girls to see science as part of their lives so that they can embrace STEM fields for their future careers

The camp will also prove girls with an opportunity to relate and interact with women scientists and engineers for role modeling and mentoring they will also be exposed to the work environment in industries to help them relate what they learn in school to real world of work and their daily lives through demonstration and practice.

Participants are 170 secondary students girls and 17 of their teachers from S2. Students were selected from 17 FAWE Rwanda partner schools based on their good performance in science subjects.

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