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01.01.1970 //IBM proposes to girls, to gather robots.
In the days of school vacations corporation IBM will conduct in Russia the first "technological school". Purpose of this program - through the interactive occupations and the captivating journeys through the scientific and technological centers of peace to introduce girl- adolescents to the sphere of science and technologies, to support their further interest in mathematics and other exact science. the "technological schools", conducted since 1999, are the part of the global corporate programs IBM. In the present year to their conducting are drawn fifty one subdivision IBM in the different countries of peace. They participate in them more than 1700 schoolgirls. The program of "technological school" is addressed to the girls of middle classes. During 4 days of 25 participants in the Russian "technological school" IBM will complete virtual journeys on the scientific and technical museums of peace, will collect and will program robot, they will be introduced to the new promising technologies, scientific experiments and much other will be conducted. Entertaining journeys expect them on portal www.tryscience.org, created with support IBM and which converted the peace of science and technologies into the captivating game. The composition of participants in the school is formed in the partnership with the secondary schools of Moscow with the intensified study of mathematics, physics and information theory. Interrogations show that 75% of girls at the age from 12 to 17 years do not plan subsequently to select the profession, connected with mathematics, by science and by technologies. A similar interrogation in THE USA confirmed these results: already in the middle classes of the school of girl they cease to be interested in mathematics and natural science. At the same time, the highly skilled specialists in the region of technologies do not be sufficient in entire peace, and, judging by the forecasts, in the near future this tendency will be preserved. IBM tries to complete this scarcity in the personnel due to the scope of the groups, which are today insufficiently widely represented in this professional sphere. For this are created schools mentioned above; therefore they popularize among the girls professional activity in the region of science and technologies. On the completion of school the corporation will continue to work with the schools, which participated in this program, through another program? tutorship of teachers and children (IBM MentorPlace). Its participants will discuss questions of the mastery of new technologies with their teachers, will be obtained council and support from the professionals from IBM.