ABSTRACT
Due to Covid-19 pandemic, adaptations for carrying out remote work have become necessary in various sectors of society. Among these, the educational area was one of the most impacted and, with the goal of creating a "new normal", activities that used to be face-to-face are now performed online. Considering the importance of society-university integration, the university outreach programs, which form one of the pillars of the public university, also had to be adapted so the activities would continue. This paper presents the planning and execution strategies adopted by the Fast Girls outreach project team. This project is an initiative of the Faculty of Technology in partnership with other units of the University of Brasília and has the purpose of motivating girls and young women, students of basic public education from the outskirts of Brasília to pursue careers in the STEM areas (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). In this process, active teaching-learning strategies based on pedagogical workshops with hands-on activities, games, interactive lectures, women’s testimonials, and conversation rounds were used. Meanwhile the difficulties encountered, as well as the results achieved were identified and discussed, highlighting the enriching character of these procedures for the undergraduate students in terms of their ability to adapt to the execution of the teaching-learning methods in face of the new reality. In this conception, the work presents positive results, extending the benefits of the use of active learning strategies beyond basic education, reaching undergraduate students, even in times of distance education. © 2021 University of Minho. All rights reserved.