In April 2022, RODIAS participated in the nationwide “Girl’s Day” action day for the first time. Shortly after the announcement on the platform, the three places were taken. Unfortunately, one girl had to cancel at short notice due to Corona. The girls were welcomed in the morning by the RODIAS working student in HR, Larissa, and looked after throughout the day.
First, there was a kind of tour of the premises in the morning. This included a short “meet &greet” with the managing director. The girls also visited all project offices, where they received a brief explanation of the specific tasks of one of the colleagues in the project. The schedule of the day included assembling a Lego robot and in a further step, programming it with Scratch (with the help of an exercise book based on the MINT program used in schools). The girls were supported and accompanied by the two trainees Nadja and Timo.
This was also a learning task for the two trainees to slip into the role of the “teacher” for a change and support the younger ones.
During these programming exercises, the girls were able to get creative and develop their own figures (animals, cartoon characters, etc.). These figures could then be “programmed” with movement sequences, which the girls accompanied with music.
This task caused general amusement. For example, Maya programmed a deep-sea diver who is terrified when he encountered a shark at the bottom of the sea. Together with a colleague from IT, a computer was disassembled to explore the inner workings of such a box. During the lunch break, everyone had pizza and then a round of table tennis in the foyer. In the afternoon, the two girls, thrilled by the day, left RODIAS with a big bag of giveaways. One day later, the colleagues received very nice thank-you emails because the girls had had so much fun.
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