{"id":4918,"date":"2019-04-01T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T15:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Solid-Edge-Blog\/Girls-Day-2019-Empowering-Girls-with-Practical-Skills\/ba-p\/582062"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:27:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T11:27:25","slug":"girls-day-2019-empowering-girls-with-practical-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/solidedge\/girls-day-2019-empowering-girls-with-practical-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Girls Day 2019: Empowering Girls with Practical Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Girls Days is a day dedicated to inspiring girls\u2019 futures with a special focus on occupations in which few women are working or training. With women comprising less than 20% of its workforce, engineering is one of these occupations. Siemens has been a longtime participant in this German holiday first started in 2001. The day provides a chance to share knowledge, experience and the fun of engineering with girls. It\u2019s a chance for anyone, but most especially those in the field of engineering, to show girls how they can make a difference by engineering a better future for the world.<\/P><\/p>\n

This year for Girls Day<\/A>, we had the pleasure of hosting 57 bright young students between the ages of 13 and 17 in Munich’s Siemens Maker Space for a Solid Edge workshop where they learned the basics of construction, 3D printing, 3D scanning and logo design. The students combined their creativity and technical skills using our software to design a key fob, and all mastered the task with flying colors. The teens also learned how real companies use reverse engineering, generative design, and additive manufacturing to develop their products.<\/P>
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The workshop was supported by our partner Shining 3D, who kindly provided a 3D printer and a 3D scanner and gave a brief introduction to 3D printing. We also thank our Maker Space colleagues Michael Kleemann and Dorothea Grimm, with whom we organized the event together. It was a great event to not only teach practical engineering skills, but to inspire girls to shape the future with a career in engineering one day! The participants will soon receive the 3D printed result of their work, so they will not only have a keepsake to remember the workshop by, but also a great example of how their work comes to life in the real world when the digital is made real with Siemens technology.<\/P>
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By the way, students anywhere can use the free Solid Edge Student license to bring their ideas to life. Download Solid Edge for students<\/A> to get started.<\/P><\/p>\n

Original post<\/A> written by Susann Kunz @sushisusi<\/a>.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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