On March 29, we welcomed 13 girls aged between 13-19 years old, to our office in Stockholm, as we took part in “Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day” (IGEday) once more. IGEday is a yearly event in Sweden where tech companies and organizations, big and small, open up their offices for girls and non-binary to get a hands-on introduction to the life of an engineer.

IGEday is an initiative by the organization Womengineer, whose goal is to inspire future female engineers with practical learning experiences. Sweden considers itself to be one of the most equal countries in the world, but out of the 120,000 members of “The Swedish Association of Graduate Engineers,” only 28% of the members were women in 2018 (from the report “Teknisk Obalans”). This is why Womengineer believe the annual event “Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day” is a step in the right direction for Sweden’s future.

This year almost 2,000 girls participated in IGEday and more than 120 companies took part, Magine being one of them.  

Fabian Miiro, an engineer at Magine, who supported the girls during the day shares his thoughts on the experience: “My favorite moment is definitely seeing the transformation from the ones that start off being… skeptic. They mention they surely don’t know anything about programming. And then, just 15 minutes later they are the ones that say “What if…” and “Oh, let’s try…”. To see that transformation, when someone realizes that they can to do what an engineer does, that is what this is all about to me. Because everyone can be an engineer!”

During IGEday we ventured into the programming landscape and introduced the girls to design, hardware and software, programming Arduinos using a visual programming language based on scratch.

“It was fun to watch the girls challenge claims. For example, they were asked to choose any number, so they chose a number, then they were asked to choose another number, which they did.  Then they were asked to choose a new number again; the reason was that the first two numbers they chose were special, so they found out that “any number” in this case meant “any number but those two numbers” – Kadri-Annagret Petersen, Tester at Magine.

Magine is very proud and happy to have been part of IGEday and we strongly believe in its purpose, and as one of our Project Coordinators at Magine, Esther Pino, said: “Anyone can be a programmer or designer, the girls proved it that day!”

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Last month we had the privilege of taking part in Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day. A yearly event in Sweden where tech companies open their offices for girls aged between 13-19 years to get a hands-on introduction to engineering.

The event is organized by Womengineer, whose goal it is to have equal numbers of men and women graduate as engineers by 2030. IGEDay is one step towards accomplishing it as the day aims to inspire future female engineers with practical learning experiences. Magine is extremely proud to be part of the journey, and this year we welcomed 20 girls who selected us to be their host company.

Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at Magine

“The IGEDay has been the most unexpected awesome day that I’ve had. The nerves I started the day with turned pretty fast into excitement and it was amazing to walk the girls through solving the challenges.” – Camelia Smeria, engineer at Magine

During IGEDay we ventured into the programming landscape and introduced the girls to hardware and software, programming arduinos using a visual programming language based on scratch. We also explored the importance of project management and put it into practice by designing and creating demo OTT services.

Ivett Backlund, an engineer at Magine who supported the girls during the day shares her thoughts on the experience, “It was exciting to see how fast our visitors got the technical concepts like agile, user-centric design and product ownership and it was fascinating seeing them create solutions to the services they use every day.”

Get in touch to find out more about events and career opportunities at Magine.