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Robogals is an international student-run organisation that aims to inspire, engage and empower young women to consider studying engineering and related fields. Its primary activity is interactive, engineering based workshops for girls aged between 8-18 (depending on location).〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robogals Brings Engineering to Girls, ECSWomen Brings Robogals )〕 Robogals has chapters at 31 universities across Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, China, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Philippines. These chapters fall into three regions - Robogals Asia Pacific, Robogals EMEA (Europe, Middle East, & Africa), and Robogals North America.〔http://www.robogals.org/our-network/chapter-locations〕 Robogals also run a range of other activities around this central theme. Past events have included a robotics competition (2008), a mass robot dance that attracted significant media coverage (2009), a robot artwork exhibition, science fair (2010), the Robogals Science Challenge (2012-) and the Robogals Challenge in the UK (2015-). The organisation is predominately run by university student volunteers, including at the global headquarters in Melbourne, Australia with the Leadership Team of Robogals based around the world. Robogals is funded through the support and partnerships with key engineering related companies around the world such as: Beck Engineering, Telsta, Modern Teaching Aids, Worley Parsons, ACA, Defence Force Recruiting and AbiGroup. Robogals' achievements have been recognised on an international level with the awarding of an Anita Borg Change Agent Award by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Marita Cheng )〕 Robogals founder Marita Cheng was named the 2012 Young Australian of the Year. ==History== Robogals was founded as a student club at the University of Melbourne in July 2008 by mechatronics engineering undergraduate Marita Cheng, together with her partner Mark Parncutt and three other engineering and science students, Kelly Chiu, Ann Chee Lim and Vi Vu.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robogals Smash Robot Dancing Record )〕 The idea initially came from efforts by one of Cheng's professors, Jamie Evans, to teach robotics at Lauriston Girls' School as a way to encourage more girls to study engineering. Following its initial successes in Melbourne, the organisation was expanded throughout Australia in 2009 by inviting female engineering students from four more universities around Australia to a three-day "Bootcamp" at the University of Melbourne where they learned how to run a Robogals chapter back at their home university.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title=Marita Cheng - Robogal 25 UNDER 25 + smashin' it! triple j )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Meet a Sandboxer: Marita Cheng )〕 It is also helpful if the students have support from their faculty for establishing a Robogals chapter on their campus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robogals UK funding proposal )〕 This process has been repeated several times since then Robogals has expanded to 31 universities worldwide as of 2015. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robogals」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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