Card Game:
Women Who Inspire
Learn about the stories of Colombian women who have achieved their dreams in the field of science!
Why?
Many of us have grown up without role models to help us feel identified or capable of achieving the dreams we have.
We want the rural communities of Colombia to know that there are not only Colombian men working in astronomy inside and outside the country, but also that there are many Colombian women working in astronomy.
We want the stories to be read and heard so that the new generations grow up knowing how people close to their environment have achieved great goals.
OUR PHYSICAL KIT
The box contains:
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34 stories of women who inspire.
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6 wild cards: research areas.
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19 challenge cards: easy, intermediate and difficult level.
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Constellation board.
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A booklet with the game instructions.
How to play?
Explanatory video
Instructions PDF
Method 1: Meet the scientists
For this form of the game, we need: Women cards and jokers.
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We shuffle the cards and deal 6 cards to each player.
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The first person to play will select one of the categories of women's cards, with a respective criterion, e.g: Most distant place of work from Colombia
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A time will be given for all players to choose a card that they believe can compete under that criterion. The cards will be revealed to everyone at the same time.
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We will discuss the selected cards, their profiles and in particular we will choose who won with the chosen criteria. The winner takes all the cards that participated in that round.
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If there is a tie, the first player to shout "ASTRONOMY" gets to choose a new category and criteria from the cards already played to break the tie, but only for the tied players.
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Jokers can be chosen on a respective round, instead of choosing a category and criteria. All players who have scientists working in that specific area of astronomy must turn over their cards to the one who plays the joker. The joker card then leaves the game.
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If you run out of cards, you exit the game.
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The game ends if a maximum playing time is defined, and whoever has the most cards wins, or when you are the last one with cards in the game. Whichever comes first.
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Have fun while you get to know the stories of Colombian women scientists. Remember that there are no better scientist, we all have a different story, and we excel in what we do.
Method 2: Knowledge constellations
For this form of the game, we need: Women's cards, challenges and board.
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Part 1. Building constellations
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We shuffle the women's cards and leave them in a deck, face down.
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On each turn, the player draws a card from the deck
'Women Who Inspire' and reads the information aloud.
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The player decides in which
constellation of knowledge
to add the card, justifying their choice and placing the card in the corresponding section of the board.
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The turns continue until the four constellations are completed.
Part 2. Solving astronomical challenges
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Form two groups with an equal number of players and one referee.
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Each group chooses a Challenge card of the same level (Choose among basic, intermediate, and advanced levels).
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Teams discuss which constellation of scientists could solve the challenge. They should focus the discussion on how the scientists' skills and areas of expertise can be combined to form an effective research team.
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Each team justifies to the referee why their choice is optimal. All team members must give at least one justification.
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The referee chooses the team with the best justification. The winning team gets the Challenge card and the corresponding constellation.
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The game continues until all the women constellations have resolved one of the Challenge cards and the constellation board is empty again.
Get to know their stories!
These are the women who participate in this activity
We certainly know there are many more (and more upcoming generations!).
Get to know our work team
Together we work to make this project possible
Sofía Rojas
PhD Astronomy
Postdoc at University of California - Los Angeles, USA.
Natalia Oliveros
PhD (c) Astrophysics
Johns Hopkins University, USA.
Juan P Uchima
PhD (c) Astronomy
Universidad de La Serena,
Chile
Nataly Ospina
Talent attraction program researcher Maria Zambrano - Autonomous University of Madrid
Laura Ramírez
PhD (c) Astronomy
Université de Genève
Ginebra, Suiza
Felipe Ortiz
BSc. Geology - Halley UIS
Universidad Industrial de
Santander, Colombia
Juan P Carvajal
PhD (c) Astronomy
Pontifica Universidad Católica de Chile
Ángela Pérez
Msc. Education - Leader of NAEC Colombia and Medellin Planetarium
Kevin Villegas
BSc Physical Engineering - Observatory UTP at Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira, Colombia
Juan Angel Duque
BSc. Physics - Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Alexandra Serrano
BSc. Physics - Halley Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia