"Our tagline and primary goal is building the economy, one job at a time" - Judi Sandrock

13:59 - 12 May 2016

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Girls in space

Judi Sandrock is the Co-founder and CEO of an Africa-based social enterprise MEDO SPACE that trains and equip school girls in Africa.

At the World Economic Forum on Africa 2016 that commenced yesterday, May 11, 2016 in Kigali, Rwanda, Judi Sandrock spoke at length at the Press Conference, ‘Girls in Space’.

Regarding the fourth industrial revolution, Sandrock says we Africans need to get ready and take advantage of that revolution.

MEDO SPACE plans to send a satellite into space every year between now and 2020. Young women from high schools are designing the experiments that will fly on those satellites. Two experiments have been designed already and they are being built.

Carla de Klerk, Program Manager at MEDO SPACE said that less than 14 percent of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) careers are held by women today. It is estimated that by 2020, 80 percent of all careers will be STEM related and as such, it is a huge gap.

MEDO SPACE hopes to push girls to go farther and to make them see that the sky is their limit.