Milestone Moment: Girls4Tech™ Reaches 1 Million Girls in 30 Countries
October 08 2020 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Mastercard aims to inspire 5 million girls by
2025 to pursue STEM-related futures
Mastercard's signature science, technology, engineering and
mathematics (STEM) program, Girls4Tech™, today reached its initial
goal of educating one million girls. The program has a new and
inspiring ambition to reach five million girls by 2025.
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The program, which launched in 2014, offers activities and
curriculum built on global science and math standards. It
incorporates Mastercard’s deep expertise in technology and
innovation, enabling students to discover a range of STEM careers,
such as fraud detective, data scientist and software engineer.
Starting as a hands-on, in-person session run by employee
volunteers, the program has expanded into new topics such as
artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, and enhanced access to
its STEM curriculum through a digital learning experience,
Girls4Tech Connect, which has been translated into eight
languages.
Susan Warner, vice president of talent and community engagement
and founder of Girls4Tech™, said, “Our goal is to build
foundational STEM knowledge and develop critical 21st century
skills girls need for their studies and career success. Our program
sparks their curiosity in STEM and teaches them real-world
applications of those skills.”
How Girls4Tech reaches future STEMinists:
- Announced a new partnership to create a Girls4Tech digital
curriculum with Discovery Education — the global leader in
standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content,
and professional learning for K-12 classrooms — to reach 1.6
million girls by 2023.
- Partnering with other global and national organizations such as
Scholastic, AIF, Major League Baseball, Network for Teaching
Entrepreneurship (NFTE), The R&A, YCAB in Indonesia and Arus in
Malaysia to further scale the program and offer STEM skills in
unique ways to girls ages 8-16.
- Adding new curriculum to give students deeper exposure to the
growing fields of cybersecurity and AI.
- Launching new programs like Girls4Tech 2.0 for girls ages
13-16, and Girls4Tech & Code, a 20-week coding program for
girls 8-10.
Moving the needle for Girls in STEM
In 2019, Mastercard commissioned a study to understand gender
and generational differences surrounding perceptions and attitudes
of STEM-based topics and programs. It also explored challenges and
motivations students cited for pursuing college majors and careers
path.
The study showed that females are less confident, receive less
encouragement and need more mentors in STEM. Mastercard’s
Girls4Tech program provides each of those elements to young
women.
To learn more about Girls4Tech and access the online lessons,
please visit Girls4Tech Connect.
About Mastercard, www.mastercard.com
Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments
industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital
economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions
safe, simple, smart and accessible. Using secure data and networks,
partnerships and passion, our innovations and solutions help
individuals, financial institutions, governments and businesses
realize their greatest potential. Our decency quotient, or DQ,
drives our culture and everything we do inside and outside of our
company. With connections across more than 210 countries and
territories, we are building a sustainable world that unlocks
priceless possibilities for all.
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Seth Eisen Seth.Eisen@mastercard.com 914-249-3153
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