Girls' Day 2025

About

The Girls' Day is a nationwide day in Germany for career orientation for girls starting from the 5th grade. Companies, businesses, universities, and research institutions across Germany open their doors to female students every year. Girls get to explore vocational jobs and degree programs in IT, natural sciences, and technology, fields where women have been traditionally underrepresented.

With a focus on digital technologies, trends, and innovations, as well as computer science and information technologies, the TUM Campus Heilbronn - the campus 'for the Digital Age' - offers insights into current research in the field of information technology providing a platform for personal exchange between female students and role models in research!

Link: https://chn.tum.de/event/event/girls-day-2025-1

 

Prof. Luise Pufahl is a role model for researchers in IT

Prof. Luise Pufahl has always engaged in diversity in IT to inspire young women in the field of computer science. For this reason, she will personally welcome the students attending this year's Girls' Day and participate in a panel discussion with female researchers to share her valuable experiences and serve as a role model.

 

Modeling Workshop for Students

The Chair of Information Systems, under the direction of Prof. Luise Pufahl, is offering a modeling workshop as part of this year's Girls' Day, with the topic 'Automation of Business Processes: How Does It Work?' In this workshop, students will have the opportunity to learn important concepts of business process management research in a playful manner. They actively have to identify and model processes themselves using t-BPMN.

 

Programming workshop Byte & Beat - A Girl's Coding Adventure

This interactive workshop introduces schoolgirls to the world of programming. The workshop consists of two parts. Firstly, basic concepts such as ‘divide & conquer’, functions and loops are discussed. The pupils then help Byte, a mythical creature, to collect gemstones. The complicated route is broken down into smaller, less complex steps and executed with the correct sequence of programming commands. Once the pupils have mastered the basics, the second part begins, which addresses the creativity that plays an important role in programming. For a ‘dance battle’, the pupils are asked to work in small groups to devise and implement a dance choreography for Beat, the robot. This not only gives the students a practical insight into the course content at TUM Campus Heilbronn, but also shows them what programming actually means: creativity, fun and lots of trial and error.