Diversity in the STEM field

How are equality and diversity important for the science field?

We are the Cambridge International Science 6th/7th grades program and on this website you can learn more about diversity in the STEM field.
STEM is an acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathemathics. It covers a group of educational courses and careers that are linked to these scientific fields.

Our project

The idea for this project was conceived based on the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. We chose the topics number 5 and 10, which are ''Gender Equality'' and ''Reduced Inequalities''.

Since we are students of the Cambridge International Science program, we decided to take those topics and direct them to the STEM area

We chose to focus on three communities that, throughout the history of STEM, were not represented proportionally to their occurrences in the general population: women, black people and LGBTQIA+ community members.

We are aware of the fact that these are not all of the different groups we are able to identify in the STEM (we can quote indigenous people, people with disabilities or neurodivergent people, for example), but we considered them the ones that covered most part of the population that, over time, suffered prejudice in the STEM field.

We created a podcast so you can learn more about diversity with different teachers from Colégio Rio Branco. Take a look!

Please answer the form we made to collect data for our next classes. Thank you!

On the Think about page are the questions we based ourselves on to make this project. 
Do you want to know more important people in the STEM field? Here are some of our most Remarkable Names.
We designed some great interactive games for you to try out! Check the Interactive Games page to know more!

Made by:

Bruno Freitag Borin

Maria Leal Nicéas

Miguel Lucas Brandão

Lara Rodrigues Goulart

Pedro Hüneke Fernandes

Aline Pellegrini Bonifácio

Rafael Lima Pierre

Mariana Giovanoni Nardini

Betina Furst

Nádia Averna Armiliato

Cecília Veronezzi

Patrícia De Araujo Borges

Gabriela Costa do Nascimento

Elis Da Costa Formiga

Pedro Henrique da Silva Carvalho

Isabela Nery Torres