Today WISE launches a digital platform to engage 11-19-year-old girls. My Skills My Life shows girls that science, technology, engineering and maths opens doors to a huge variety of exciting and purposeful jobs and careers in every sector. Over 1,000 girls from across the UK have given their input:
“I like how it allows a person to describe themselves, how they see themselves and not how others see them. And how it’s not what you have to do but what it recommends. It doesn’t test how smart you are – doesn’t discriminate.”
“It helps narrow down the wide range of ideas and career paths to make the experience of choosing what you’d like to do less daunting and more exciting in a fun and inspiring way.”
WISE developed the platform with generous support from BAE Systems, Broadcom, Goldman Sachs Gives, National Skills Academy for Rail, Network Rail, techUK and the UK Space Agency. Based on feedback from girls, teachers and role models and recommendations from an independent evaluation of People Like Me, My Skills My Life is an online game designed to be played on a mobile phone, tablet or computer, connecting girls to hundreds of role models working in all areas of STEM. With your help, we aim to reach at least 200,000 girls.
As we keep developing My Skills My Life, it will replace People Like Me, and the My Skills My Life game will be supported by comprehensive resources for teachers, role models and everyone who will deliver it.
Please share the resource within your organisation and networks. Ask young women working in STEM to sign up as role models via the home page of our website www.wisecampaign.org.uk.
If you have any questions, please email us at info@wisecampaign.org.uk
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