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00:30More than 700 girls from across Estonia had gathered in the school near Tallinn for the 8th edition of a
00:36unique summer camp.
00:38Three days of robotics, drones, artificial intelligence and engineering challenges.
00:44The highlight of year-long courses run across Estonia by the HK Unicorn Squad,
00:50a non-profit organization providing free tech-related hobby education exclusively to girls.
01:00If Frank has received 7 years from the school, then there will always be all of our boys together.
01:10No, it won't be.
01:16Aimed at tackling the gender gap in tech and engineering careers,
01:20the initiative was founded in 2018 by Tavi Kotka,
01:23one of the architects of Estonia's well-renowned e-government system, and his wife Kirsten.
01:29This class is like a pro-level girl, skilled in robotics and programming.
01:34They have to build a crane that is capable to catch as much metal as possible during one minute.
01:42They have like zero clue to just figure it out by themselves.
01:44It's really fun to, like, try some new things.
01:49Sometimes you fail, like, first we didn't, like, really get the flow with the programming.
01:53But yeah, now, at the end of it, we got it to work.
01:58International studies have shown you want the person to be interested in anything.
02:03You have to introduce that, like, thing before age 11.
02:07So you cannot get a ballerina if she starts at the age of 14 or 15.
02:12Engineering is not different.
02:15It's international proven that the women perform better in women-only environments.
02:21They feel safer, more relaxed.
02:23They don't feel left behind as they feel when they are in the mixed groups.
02:29The HK Unicorn Squad is named after Helena Kotka, Tavi's daughter.
02:34The initiative was born after she and the only other girl in her elementary school robotics club
02:40were excluded when the group was split.
02:55After completing all six levels of the Unicorn Squad program, Helena now teaches the next generation.
03:04The kids are learning to train DJI Neodroonis, such as small children.
03:09The children are in our world.
03:10There are a lot of children in the world.
03:13There are a lot of children in the world.
03:15There are a lot of children in the world.
03:16There are a lot of children in the world that are still left.
03:27Si se vean, cómo se vean los años, cómo se vean los espacios en el mundo.
03:31Nadie se vean, que se vean los que quieren.
03:34Después de graduación de este año, Elena quiere estudiar medicina.
03:39En cada área hay un poco de la tecnología.
03:41Si me haces un poco de la cirugía o algo,
03:43si se puede hacer un poco de la operación, como un robotico, o no.
03:49Y no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
03:58Many of the camp's volunteer instructors are unicorns' parents.
04:02You have to use 3,5 liters of water.
04:24Katri is on the Extended Management Board of Estonia's largest bank.
04:29In her spare time, she runs the Unicorn Squad Group all year round.
04:34I wanted my own daughter to be part of one of these groups
04:37and to actually learn science and technology through that.
04:41You start having a conversation with your daughter and you hear,
04:44well, this is a man's job and this is a woman's job.
04:46Technology and things are more for boys.
04:48And I was like, no, I'm not having that at the age of 10.
04:51You don't kind of put yourself in some kind of box
04:54and you can do what the boys can do.
04:59If these girls wouldn't get this technology experience
05:03in the world that we live in that is all technology-based,
05:06they would be perhaps a little bit left behind.
05:08So I think this kind of program stretching all across Estonia,
05:11it will change a generation.
05:15A change that is also needed for Estonia to stay competitive, says Otialakas,
05:21a co-founder of the language learning platform Lingvist,
05:24we meet in a workshop on AI music generation.
05:27He and his friend Gert, a diplomat, also run a Unicorn Squad group
05:31at their daughter's school.
05:34Being a tech company founder and investor myself,
05:38I can see how technology is changing the world on a daily basis
05:41and how male-dominated the whole sector is.
05:45And still there is a lot of value, a lot of wealth,
05:47a lot of money if you want created.
05:49So we just cannot afford leaving girls out of it.
05:53Bringing positive change through innovation is a key motivation for Tavi Kotka,
05:58also the CEO of a business development start-up.
06:02For me, solving a country-level problem is an interesting challenge.
06:06Getting more girls into engineering is also a national problem.
06:11Engineers don't have to solve only the mechanical problems,
06:14we can also solve the unfixed social problems.
06:16Whether it concerns tax fraud, pensions or teachers' salaries,
06:21Tavi Kotka has also submitted ideas to the government.
06:25After fostering Estonia's digital state as its first chief information officer,
06:30he is now an advisor for the new national AI strategy.
06:35This famous Estonian journalist filming a documentary on Tavi Kotka summarises.
06:41Tavi Kotka is like a shadow prime minister in Estonia.
06:45He creates his own ecosystems within Estonia.
06:51So far, about 5,000 girls have followed the HK Unicorn Squad programme.
06:56That's 10% of Estonian girls in their age group.
07:00It will take a decade to see the impact of the Unicorn Squad on the workplace, says Tavi Kotka.
07:05In the meantime, he hopes to see the initiative take a new dimension.
07:09We want to reach to the level that every Estonian child can learn modern technology,
07:15but for that we need to get into all the schools and it has to become like a government project.
07:24Invited to speak at his daughter's graduation ceremony in between camp activities,
07:29Tavi Kotka left the students with a final message.
07:32Tavi Kotka left the students with a final message.
07:33Treninud, teie.
07:35Konkurrents on maailmas parem.
07:37Eesti on äära ala.
07:39Aga mei on äära maa.
07:40Siit saab minne Velismaale.
07:42Siit saab muurda maailma.
07:44Siit saab teha.
07:45Eesti paremast.
07:48Tωνense turist.
07:50Isambia syrup European font.
07:53Ilme ul быure.
07:55Elmer piごosil cura.
07:56Dime.
07:57Ufa.
07:57Poh!
07:59Fonense turists south the,
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