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40,000 HIGH SCHOOLERS WILL BE REACHED
Ms. Ebru Özdemir, Chair of Limak Foundation Board of Trustees, said Turkey’s Engineer Girls was in its third year and on the way to becoming a brand. She said: “As Limak Foundation, we own and lead the field in our country, not only in university education, but also at high school level through an auxiliary programme of Turkey’s Engineer Girls, and at primary education level through the project “Little Engineers of the Home” by our Foundation. We aim to make positive contribution to the field of STEM through gender equality perspective, instead of voicing “sitem” (meaning “complaint” in Turkish).” Emphasising that the university leg of the project exceeded this year 100 students from 30 universities, Ms. Ebru Özdemir stated that “We have 145 volunteer mentors in our mentoring pool. At the high school leg, we aspire to reach more than 40,000 high schoolers through training of trainers and practices in 10 provinces. Further, we reached about 1,000 little engineers through our Little Engineers of the Home.”
TWO SYRIAN STUDENTS IN THE PROGRAMME
It is aimed that students involved in the project create social good and generate solutions to social problems. This year, two students joined the project who migrated from Syria to Turkey where they are now studying engineering. This figure is expected to increase in future years. The project also aims in this context to help Syrian students who are now in Turkey integrate with the Turkish society and create awareness for their continued education in Turkey. The overall purpose is thus to raise engineer women who are the responsible and sensitive leaders of tomorrow.