The program of mentoring The Erasmus+ E-STEAM project kicked off on Monday 11 November with a presentation session between mentors and mentees at the IES Francesc Ribalta in Castellón. This programme is part of the European E-STEAM project (2018-2020) to promote STEM studies among young women. Its aim is to guide high school and college students in choosing their career path through mentoring by professional women in STEM areas.
During this kick-off session of the E-STEAM mentoring program, the mentors have introduced themselves to their corresponding mentees, a total of 15 students from 4th year of ESO and 1st year of Bachillerato at IES Ribalta, where this meeting was held. This is the first in-depth contact between mentors and mentees, an opportunity in which the latter will be able to take advantage of the opportunity to ask their mentors their first questions regarding their professional future.
The mentoring program will last six months and will aim to make the young women reflect on their future and to show them the wide range of professional opportunities offered by science, technology, mathematics and engineering (STEM). The mentoring team is made up of a total of 11 professionals from the STEM areas. In the area of chemistry, there is the UJI professor Rosa Llusar and the researchers from the University Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) Beatriz Julián and Macarena Poyatos. Also mentoring are the professor and doctor in agricultural engineering from the UJI María Jesús Muñoz and Elena Fernández, a graduate in Multimedia Engineering from the University of Valencia (ETSE).
In the area of science, E-STEAM has the following PhDs in Computer Science: Mercedes Marqués and Inmaculada Remolar, the graduate in Psychology: Raquel Agost, and the graduate in Biomedical Sciences: Marta Tolosa, in addition to the graduate in Biological Sciences: Marisa Falcó, and the head engineer of the Technical Skills Assurance for Maintenance project at BP, Susana Pérez.
