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Girls Day na FI

What was Girls Day like at FI MUNI on April 26, 2018

Meetings with IT professionals and interactive workshops

Figures and statistics confirm the longer-term trend of increasing girls' interest in studying computer science at FI MUNI. Ten years ago, applicants made up only twelve percent. In the last admission procedure (2018), by bachelor's fields 2,053 applicants applied to the school, with girls accounting for 21.3 percent (there were 438 of them).

The general opinion that computer science is not a field for girls and women, but discourages and influences a number of talented candidates from studying, when choosing a future career.

Because we do not want to lose these often very talented candidates, we joined the worldwide event to support women in technical fields. The first impulse to organize Girls Day came from the students themselves, who met the event during practice in partner companies and said to themselves that this is exactly what is missing at FI MUNI, because thanks to similar events they got to IT themselves.

Girls Day at FI MUNI is supposed to tell girls that informatics is an interesting and diverse field and that they can handle it without any problems, even if their surroundings don't think so.

To support this message, we took advantage of the fact that at FI MUNI we have a lot of great inspirational women who shone in the IT business after studying at FI. So we invited them to talk about their experiences. Barbora Kozlíková, Associate Professor of Informatics specializing in computer graphics and design, Doctoral Student of the Faculty of Informatics Vlasta Šťavová, who focuses on computer systems security and user friendliness, Graduate of the Faculty of Informatics and Project Manager of the successful Brno start-up Y Soft Zuzana Zatrochová spoke at the panel discussion. and current computer science student Dominika Krejčí.

This was followed by workshops on robot programming, digital image and graphics processing, computational linguistics and automatic text processing, which is used, for example, in search engines.

Throughout, the event was accompanied by a good mood and confirmed that the computer scientists were doing more than well at the faculty.

Photo gallery Girls Day 2018

If you are interested in anything about the topic of women in IT or directly about your study opportunities and employment at FI MUNI, do not hesitate to contact us: propagace@fi.muni.cz

Press release at online.muni.cz

Info also in FB event