Due to the overwhelming demand for our Family Stop Motion workshop, we're excited to share a new Creative Coding session is now open to families too with kids ages 10+! 🎄 Fancy learning how to make your own smart Christmas Tree??? How about a light-up Christmas Card? We've got you covered! Join us for our Creative Coding Workshop on the 23rd of November with support from the Falmouth Town Council's Re-Source Project! 💻 For Ages 10+: This creative workshop is designed for complete beginners to build digital skills and confidence through basic coding activities. We will show you how to program a moisture sensor, using very simple block-based coding. Perfect for people who have never coded before. 👩👧👦 Perfect for learning about tech together as a family. 🤩 ONLY 10 SPACES LEFT!!! Register for your free place using this link: https://lnkd.in/euF_mh9C #CIOSGOODGROWTH #UKSPF Spaces on this workshop are funded by UK Government Shared Prosperity Funding as part of Falmouth Town Council’s Resource Project. For more information, please visit https://lnkd.in/esu83Rt9 NOTE: You will not take home the smart tree coding equipment we use on the day, but don't worry, if you fall in love with programming we can show you where to get the kit (for less than £30). Perfect for early Christmas Presents! #CIOSGOODGROWTH #ukspf #kidsstemactivities
TECwomen CIC
Primary and Secondary Education
Redruth, Cornwall 1,482 followers
Igniting a passion for technology, engineering and creativity for women and young girls in Cornwall.
About us
TECwomen CIC is a community interest company that provides an online community, in-person events and training opportunities for women and girls with a focus on technical, engineering and creative digital skills. We also run the awardwinning TECgirls project working with children as young as 4 to engage, inspire and excite. Our team delivers a large range of projects from community meetups and workshops, to school events and online learning. We are working hard to ensure that the growth opportunities in technology, engineering and creative digital are open and accessible to all.
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- 2019
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One of the areas of inclusion often overlooked is class gaps. Working with girls and women in an area of the lowest social mobility in the country, we see a lot first hand of the challenges faced. It is so important to raise these issues and to understand how they impact different areas of the country in different ways. Thank you for raising Karen!
Today is Class Pay Gap Day 📅 The date when working-class professionals effectively stop getting paid compared to their more privileged peers. 💰 No matter our background, being fairly rewarded for our work is what we all expect. But our updated research has revealed that professionals from working-class backgrounds are paid an average of £6,287 – or 12% – less per year than their more privileged counterparts in the same occupations. By the end of this parliament, that means someone from a working-class background in a professional occupation could be £30,000 worse off – around the cost of a typical degree 🎓 This is holding both brilliant people and the UK economy back. Research from Demos and Co-op found that improving social mobility in our workplaces could boost annual GDP by £19bn per year 🚀 (Link: https://lnkd.in/efCFWiva) Introducing gender pay gap reporting was a historic moment in the fight for gender equality. The Government has committed to extending this to disability and ethnicity. Now it’s time to do the same for class. We’re calling on the Government to introduce mandatory class pay gap reporting for all large employers to break down barriers to opportunity and unlock the growth that our country desperately needs. Read more about the research here: https://lnkd.in/eNt5qUzs Anneliese Dodds Jonathan Reynolds MP Rt Hon Rachel Reeves Department for Education Office for Equality and Opportunity Department for Business and Trade Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
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Last chance to get involved in our Micro:bit activity for your primary classes! Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/eqftb7Qt . Or you can watch Jessie Durk's video to see what is involved: https://lnkd.in/e-TkuKeK This activity will close at the end of November so if you can squeeze it in, we'd be most grateful! It's open to all schools in the UK. At the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre we conduct research into the teaching and learning of computing and AI. If you'd like to hear about more studies you could participate in, sign up to our Teacher Research Network Newsletter at this link: https://lnkd.in/e4cUa66H
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CEO at Royal Academy of Engineering and Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
🤔 This #NationalEngineeringDay we're asking: who is your #EngineeringRoleModel? I am in the fortunate position of meeting my role models every single day but I thought you might enjoy this video featuring one of our Royal Academy of Engineering engineering heroes.... ✨ 📻 Stay tuned, there's more to come! #ThisIsEngineering
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🎄 Fancy learning how to make your own smart Christmas Tree??? How about a light-up Christmas Card? We got you covered! We know it's only the start of November but we can't wait to get into the festive spirit, thanks to Falmouth Town Council's Re-Source Project, at our upcoming Creative Coding Workshop on the 23rd of November! 💻 This creative workshop is designed for complete beginners aged 16+ to build digital skills and confidence through basic coding activities. We will show you how to program a moisture sensor, using very simple block-based coding. Perfect for people who have never coded before. 👩👧👦 Perfect for learning about projects you can also take home and run with your family or friends. 🤩 Spaces are limited so book early to avoid missing out. Register for your free place using this link: https://lnkd.in/eZGCe6ur #CIOSGOODGROWTH #UKSPF Spaces on this workshop are funded by UK Government Shared Prosperity Funding as part of Falmouth Town Council’s Resource Project. For more information, please visit https://lnkd.in/edDpu2u8 NOTE: You will not take home the smart tree coding equipment we use on the day, but don't worry, if you fall in love with programming we can show you where to get the kit (for less than £30). Perfect for early Christmas Presents!
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Time flies when you're changing the world. 5 years since TECgirls was created. Now look where we are!
Changemaker working in the worlds of digital skills, education and tech for good. Founder of TECwomen CIC and TECgirl Labs, Chair of the CIoS Digital Skills Partnership Board, Co-Founder of Kensa Health.
5 years ago I was the Director of a Embedded Software Company. We had grown substantially and were desperate to hire. All people. Any people. We did everything to make the process unbiased. However, we still didn’t have women apply for technical roles. It was at that point I saw the pipeline issue in huge flashing lights. We can't hire female software engineers if there aren't enough of them. So I looked into the root issues and tracked the problem back to primary school. Girls in Cornwall were just not taking part in computing. Not at school. Not in clubs. Not on weekends. I watched a Mum take her two kids to the library, drop off her son to the coding club I was volunteering at and then take her daughter to the side to read. When I asked why, the Mum said her daughter wasn't techy. An hour later that little girl was coding a rainbow LED light strip using Python and having a brilliant time. That was what inspired me to set up TECgirls. First as a passion project and now 5 years later as part of TECwomen CIC, my own non-profit company. We started with the aim of reaching 100 girls. Last year we reached over 3,000, helping girls across Cornwall to explore and build a love for tech, engineering, and creativity. 5 years on I have an amazing team of 4 awesome humans and we have an offering from primary school to women who want to pivot into digital careers. Women on our digitalUPLIFT course are doing an Agile workshop as I write this. This afternoon our Eco Homes coding club will reach girls even in the most remote locations in Cornwall. Tomorrow we reach even more with our stop-motion club and on Thursday we are speaking to over 120 year 9 students in Newquay about inclusive innovation. 5 years on, that is now a typical week for us. It's been a crazy ride. My most surreal memory was July 2021 sitting on the floor in my sitting room packing up 100 micro:bits to send out to Cornish kids during COVID, while also 2 days past my due date with my daughter. Literally a labour of love. But we are getting there. And to top it all off, I've been featured in this month's Business Cornwall magazine as the CEO interview. Which is pretty epic. I’ve already sent a copy to my parents in the post. I can't wait for the next 5 years, when we start to see our interventions take shape. The issues are huge, but our projects are working. Schools we work with are reporting increases in computing participation and girls from our clubs say they want to do more and love it. We will continue to push forward until the numbers change. Inspiring girls. Helping teachers. Supporting parents. And always answering politely and referring to the data when being asked for the millionth time "why just girls?". And I hope when one of those girls is running their own growing and successful software company and they need software engineers, they will be able to put out a job ad and hire the best people. All the people.
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We're so happy to be announce the first session in our line up of family skills workshops, as part of our TECgirls project and digitalUPLIFT programme! Join us at Royal Cornwall Museum from 10:00 - 12:30 on Thursday 31st October 2024 for some spooky light up activities. Adults and children alike can come together to learn new digital skills, build confidence, and most importantly have fun together. Learn how to: Code a light up micro:bit pumpkin Design and create a spooky light-up picture Develop your own Trick or Treat digital game in Scratch Children must be accompanied by an adult, every adult may bring up to 2 children age 6+. Spaces are very limited, book your free place now: https://lnkd.in/evTfKiEC Due to the funding requirements that allow us to offer this workshop for FREE, each participating adult must bring proof of right to work in the UK to the workshop. #UKSPF #CIOSGOODGROWTH
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TECwomen are very excited to offer Into to Agile, a half-day workshop delivered by the awesome Belinda Waldock founder of Being Agile in Business (and author of a book by the same name!). The workshop is 9:30 - 12:30 on Tuesday 22nd October 2024 at Truro Community Library, followed by lunch from 12:30 - 13:30. Belinda will share a simple and straightforward, non-technical introduction to the Agile mindset and its methods, practices and tools. This will be a practical workshop for applying agile in project management, product development, team performance and business management. You can expect to: ↗️ Establish an understanding of the agile method and mindset ↗️ Understand key agile concepts, terms, and practices ↗️ Understand the benefits of agile approaches and key techniques ↗️ Learn how to apply agile project management methods and tools We are thrilled to offering this workshop completely free (including lunch) as a part of our funded digitalUPLIFT Digital Futures Shared Prosperity Project. You do not need to be on the full course to take part in this workshop and we'd love to invite women from previous digitalUPLIFT cohorts and the wider Cornwall business community to join us for a morning of business agility! There's only a few spaces left so grab your spot now: https://lnkd.in/eRXpCr3i
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We had a brilliant first TECwomen Sea Sessions this morning as a part of Women In Tech Week. We’ve been running meet-ups for women in tech in Cornwall since 2021, but it’s been really hard to run the type of events we thought we needed. After years of attending tech meet-ups we thought every event should have talks, drinks, traditional networking…but that type of event costs a lot of money. It was time to either start charging or change what we do. From this conversation and a discussion in the office about what we love in Cornwall, Sea Sessions was born. We still have all the best bits - chats, networking, women in TEC. But now we also have a different way to network. A very Cornish way at that. The best bit is, we now also have an amazing new sponsor - My Coast Limited founded by the amazing Jo Murray! It’s a match made in heaven as Jo is not only an epic woman in tech, but her brilliant new app will ensure our sessions are always safe! This morning we were able to quickly check the water quality and sea safety, critical after the big storm we had this weekend. So keep an eye out for more Sea Sessions in the future (yes even in the winter!🥶) and we hope you all have a brilliant Women in Tech Week! WeAreTechWomen #WITWeek #WomenInTechWeek
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Good morning! We are at the beach ready to go in. Find us next to Gilly Beach Cafe! #WomenInTechWeek
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