Noticed yearly on October 11, Worldwide Day of the Woman Little one celebrates women all over the world. By Resolve for Tomorrow and Samsung Innovation Campus (SIC), Samsung Electronics helps younger ladies pursue STEM (science, expertise, engineering and arithmetic) careers and empowers them to strengthen their communities.

Forward of this 12 months’s Worldwide Day of the Woman Little one, Samsung Newsroom highlights the impression of those applications and spotlights younger ladies forging significant careers in expertise.

India: From Newbie to Hackathon Winner

Rising up in Bangalore, Vaishnavi Kambar had no publicity to coding and by no means imagined becoming a member of a hackathon. After creating her expertise at SIC and gaining expertise as an intern, she went on to win HackToFuture 3.0. How does somebody go from realizing little about programming to claiming victory so rapidly? For Kambar, the reply wasn’t a single breakthrough however regular assist and collaboration at SIC. There, she superior her technical talents and gained the boldness to carry out at a excessive stage.

Early in this system, Kambar apprehensive her mentor would possibly develop annoyed along with her questions. As an alternative, she discovered persistence and steering. She credit this empathy as the inspiration that inspired her to continue learning and to talk up when doubtful.

For Kambar, SIC was a turning level. She discovered to current concepts, work in groups and remedy issues beneath strain — experiences that reshaped how she sees herself. Now, she urges different younger ladies inquisitive about expertise or innovation to strategy the journey with braveness and an open thoughts.

“Simply make the leap, even in the event you really feel such as you don’t belong. I began with no coding data and a biology background,” stated Kambar. “At instances I felt like an outsider, however I saved going, one step at a time. Every time I pushed via the worry, I grew stronger.”

Armenia: From Learner to Chief

In Armenia, Hasmik Kettsyan found SIC as a spot to develop. Though she already had coding expertise, she usually felt remoted in tech settings as the one lady within the room. At SIC, encouragement and belief created an setting the place she might apply coding principle to real-world issues — a key step to find goal in her work.

“Totally different views result in higher options, and the sphere will get stronger when extra persons are concerned,” stated Kettsyan, now a tech skilled who encourages extra younger ladies to enter the sphere. “Discover individuals who assist you and preserve pushing your self. Your concepts matter greater than you would possibly understand.”

Impressed by her time at SIC, Kettsyan is now paying it ahead. Quickly after finishing this system, she organized a expertise summer season camp for youthful college students in her neighborhood and commenced writing a guide on innovation that she hopes to publish. For her, inspiring others has change into one of the vital rewarding elements of the SIC expertise — and it continues to drive her to offer again.

China: Studying By Problem

Ziyun Xu, a current graduate of New York College Shanghai, is headed to Yale College to pursue her dream of defending the setting. As a highschool freshman in 2019, she wasn’t certain start analysis. That modified when she joined Samsung Resolve for Tomorrow, the place she rapidly discovered the pains of the method and superior quickly as a younger scientist.

At one level, Xu revised her undertaking seven instances in simply three days — every requiring an entire rethink of her strategy — whereas additionally reviewing 280 sources to strengthen her paper. The expertise laid the inspiration for extra superior work that later took her analysis past the lab.

In Guangxi, Xu and her teammates labored within the countryside to design better-ventilated cattle sheds for native households, enhance silage feed and use fermented cow dung to boost earthworms. Though farmers had been initially skeptical, they grew to understand the crew’s efforts. “The proprietor of the cattle farm sincerely thanked us for every little thing we had executed,” she recalled.

Xu credit Resolve for Tomorrow because the stepping stone to her dream, offering women an outlet to discover science whereas serving their communities. She has since carried that spirit ahead — mentoring youthful college students and presenting her findings at world conferences. “Each lady ought to consider that an concept from her youth would possibly change some nook of the world,” she stated.

Germany: Increasing Alternatives for Ladies in STEM Across the World

For ladies inquisitive about STEM careers worldwide, Resolve for Tomorrow and SIC have constructed a legacy of empowerment and neighborhood impression. As a worldwide chief in youth schooling, Samsung additionally runs initiatives similar to Ladies’DAI. On the April 2025 occasion hosted by Samsung Electronics Germany, 36 women toured the Samsung Area on the firm’s headquarters in Eschborn — exploring three ranges of AI expertise, experiencing Galaxy AI firsthand and studying about accountable and inventive makes use of of AI.

“Our Ladies’DAI has proven how a lot potential lies within the subsequent era — daring questions, artistic concepts and an open view of expertise. Anybody who desires to form AI wants these views,” stated Katharina Strohmeier, Venture Supervisor of Company Citizenship at Samsung Electronics Germany. “Ladies deliver these views, and that makes the long run smarter, fairer and extra various.”

Whether or not by supporting women to change into achieved researchers or by providing hands-on publicity to the most recent expertise, Samsung is dedicated to opening academic alternatives for the subsequent era worldwide.

Study extra about Samsung’s CSR initiatives within the hyperlinks under.

Samsung Resolve for Tomorrow is a worldwide STEM competitors that empowers college students to develop artistic, real-world options to neighborhood challenges whereas constructing expertise, confidence and connections that put together them to steer and encourage change.

Samsung Innovation Campus is a worldwide schooling program that equips youth — together with underrepresented teams — with superior IT expertise in areas like AI, massive knowledge and IoT, together with hands-on coaching and mentorship to pursue careers, startups and social impression within the digital period.