STEM is Femme

How cool is The National STEM Learning Centre in #York? The perfect location for #STEM events!

It's WOMEN IN TECH WEEK and the start of our TECH TALK's Achieving growth and excellence with trailblazing strategies for women in male dominated environments A critical time to celebrate the achievements, resilience, and progress of women breaking boundaries in male-dominated spaces. We hope you are celebrating this special week for all your hard-working women in Tech this week. So, this Women in Tech Week, let’s honour the trailblazers, the ones pushing boundaries every day, and those still navigating the challenges of this rewarding yet demanding industry. Together, we are reshaping tech to be a more inclusive and innovative space. Contact our team for more information: info@yourpeoplepower.org Special thanks to our sponsors STEM is Femme #WomenInTech #BreakingBarriers #InclusiveLeadership #TechForAll #WomenEmpowerment #LeadershipInAction

It's WOMEN IN TECH week, how is your organisation celebrating this special week?

STEM Ambassadors, check your account to see if you've been awarded a virtual badge for the last academic year! 🤩 That includes the most prestigious - the yellow 100 hours badge. Everyone should feel proud of those who have committed this amount of time. ❤️ However, if you've completed 1, 10, or 100 hours, all of you are important, and that's why we've launched a competition where you ALL have the chance to win a Bettys & Taylors of Harrogate hamper! To enter, you can check out the pinned post on the STEM Ambassadors page. #Prize #Giveaway #Achievement

With the generous funding of our partners, we run STEM Camps throughout the year. These are crucial for improving young people’s understanding of and interest in STEM subjects. Our camps help students achieve 1 grade higher in STEM topics. They also enable STEM Ambassadors to build lasting and sustained relationships with schools and communities. This significantly increases students’ aspirations. One student even said that ‘the past week has made me even more determined to choose a career in STEM. #girlsinstem’ 👩 If you’re an organisation interested in furthering the future generation of STEM professionals, help support us today, get in touch directly through Liz Whitworth at l.whitworth@stem.org.uk.

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There’s still plenty of time to enter our competition on the STEM Community and be in with a chance of winning a 2-night stay for two in the historic city of York. All you need to do to enter is tell us about your most impactful resource for STEM educators ✏️ Submit your entry here - https://bit.ly/46zrxPP

Role models are everything when it comes to promoting STEM subjects and jobs to our girls and women. STEM Ambassadors are doing an incredible job. Let's take a moment to applaud STEM Learning UK. #STEMisFemme

Overall popularity of STEM subjects on the rise! Entries across all STEM subjects have increased by 6.7% from last year, with STEM popularity hiking for both male (+8.2%) and female students (+5%). Mathematics remains the most popular STEM (and non-STEM) subject, accounting for 12.1% of all entries (up by 10.9% in 2023), now exceeding 100,000 in entries for the first time. Further mathematics (+19.9%) and physics (+12.3%) have seen the greatest increase in popularity, with physics now in the top ten most popular A level subjects.  Computing also saw increased entries (+11.4%), with female entries in computing representing the greatest jump in popularity across all subjects, with entries surging by 28.6%. More stats and info here: https://lnkd.in/ed8Ja9tS STEM.org | Educational Research

Gina Buckney is back in Liverpool putting the Femme into STEM Her latest program of work with Your People Power focuses on encouraging women and girls in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Her work with the United Nations Women has taught her people need more Role models who look like us. She may not look like the stereotypical Techie/Engineer, but this is her, Gina, from Merseyside. During her 20 years in engineering and tech she noticed women tend to dress down to fit in with their male counterparts, but if you know Gina you know dressing down is not my thing, unless she's telling someone off by giving them a dressing down 😂 ================================ Some stats: The latest research from the IET shows that the most prevalent reason as to why there is such a disparity in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) is that women are not encouraged to think about STEM careers in school (45%) and women get put off by how male-dominated the industry is (32%). Over one million UK women are now in STEM occupations but still account for only 29% of the STEM workforce. Having more visible female role models for girls in STEM would help to close the gender gap. ================================= A personal story from Gina Buckney: At 26 I became a Senior Ops Manager, responsible for 144 engineers in South Liverpool and 6 Operations Managers at BT Group, Openreach. I’d come from the world of corporate infrastructure banking, Barclays, dressed in my Navy Blue suit, and in heels, of course, I walked into my first board meeting. The response from my direct reports was not what I expected, because I certainly wasn’t what they were expecting. Half their age, female, mixed-race. I probably ticked all the diversity boxes back then (but, we are talking over 15 years ago when diversity wasn't really a thing). So, as I proceeded to run the meeting with my much older, more experienced, all-white male team, I received some harsh criticism. Comments of, ‘Are you even a real SOM?’, ‘What can you teach us?!’, ‘You can’t come in here and put things in your little project manager box!’ Turns out, my South Liverpool division concluded that year hitting target and stretch on every single KPI, and coming top out of all 20 divisions in the Northern region for Right First Time (our number 1 KPI), yup. Little young me, Gina from Liverpool, who had no prior experience in engineering or operations at the start of the role but was on a fantastic Leadership journey from BT led her team to success! How? Because, I was trained to become a master of people. We don’t need to know everything to start a job, but if we can understand and work with our people, we can achieve great things. #YourPeoplePower #STEMisFemme STEM is Femme