Proposal for 2021 Minerva Informatics Equality Award

3. Abstract (100 words or less) which can be made public “Ragazze Digitali” is a summer camp dedicated to female students of the third and fourth grade of the Italian high schools (typically, 17-18 years old). The summer camp was created by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and the EWMD association in 2014 and was further expanded in 2018 thanks to a collaboration with the University of Bologna. It has experienced a continuous increase of participants over the years, with more than 600 girls globally involved. Completely free for the participants and lasting 4 weeks between June and July, the initiative encourages female students to enroll in Computer Science programmes through a creative and innovative approach based on learn-by-doing and team-based activities.