ABSTRACT
Olimpíada Nacional de Aplicativos (ONDA) is a scientific
Olympiad for high school students from all over Brazil. One of
the problems highlighted in other scientific Olympiads, especially
those in technological areas, is the disparity in the number of
women participating, which are very low. The goal of this work is
to present how the ONDA Olympics has solved this problem. In
this way, ONDA is a different competition, as it provides
integration into teams between boys and girls, where they discuss,
present their ideas and their points of view, study about
technologies and contemporary themes and develop creative
application solutions for a better life in society. One of the
requirements to participate in the competition is that the team
contains one or more girls. The results analyzed based on the
profile of the competition's participants demonstrate how
inclusive is the ONDA and how it has served as an inspiration for
more girls to participate.