28.04.2016
Girls’ Day at Schmersal
At Schmersal, Girls’ Day begins with a guided tour. The eight participants then produced a ludo game. Part of it was made in cooperation with trainees in our training workshop, with other parts made in our tool construction department using a computer-controlled machine. The Schmersal trainees presented a range of careers: tool mechanic, electronics engineer, process engineer, dual-study technical courses.
According to the MINT 2015 spring report from IW Cologne (MINT professions = Mathematics, Information Science, Natural Sciences and Technology), by 2020 there will be a shortfall of 670,000 MINT specialists to cover personnel requirements in companies. According to IW Cologne, at least 78,000 vacancies in specialist science and technology jobs could not be filled in September 2015 alone. The aim of Girls’ Day is to attract more women to technical careers.