Serena - Serious game for girls about renewable energy technologies to promote their interest in technical vocational training✎
Last modified on 18 January 2017
SUMMARY ✎
In Germany and other European countries only a small number of women work in technical professions. Serena is a Serious Game for Girls (13-15 years) about Renewable Energy Technologies. The game can be used as a tool by teachers, parents or other initiatives focusing on promoting interest in technical vocational training among girls.
The project has both scientific and applied significance because it combines a design-based research approach to develop a serious game that aims to address the under-representation of female adolescents in technology through improving their confidence in mastering technical tasks.
In addition to the interaction with girls, partnering schools and gender experts, citizens in society are involved in the game’s development.
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Leading organisations:
- Bonn Science Shop (WILA Bonn)
- Technical University of Dresden
- Game Studio the Good Evil
Cooperation partners:
- Realschule Neuss-Holzheim
- Oberschule Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Heidenau, female gaming community
CONTACT ✎
serena@wilabonn.de