• Question: How would you use the £500 to encourage more women to get into STEM?

    Asked by 789spap22 to Robson, Reshma, K-Jo on 6 Nov 2018.
    • Photo: Reshma Vora

      Reshma Vora answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      I’d like to organize some form of motivational talks, where women in STEM go and speak in schools. This platform will allow females to look at older successful women in STEM which they may not have in their life already. There are three important area’s i’d like to focus on:

      1. Kill the maths myth – you don’t have to be good at maths to be in STEM
      2. Role Models – I think we need to show females other female role models which they can relate to
      3. Talking about women in STEM – This will help younger females broaden their horizons.

      I’m doing a motivational speech at my old high school later this month and I’m hoping that will be the start of something, I want to do more and hope other women will join in too.

    • Photo: K-Jo O'Flynn

      K-Jo O'Flynn answered on 6 Nov 2018:

      Well, I think interests always start from a young age, for example, primary schools and secondary schools. But there’s not much at all for young children at all to experience what’s in the engineering world so they don’t find the opportunities, especially young girls. So I would like to put the money into motivational talks and engineering experiences that would go from school to school, showing them examples of all the engineering world, from space engineering to mechanical engineering to all other engineering! It would give them a tester of how every section works from complicated designing to getting their hands dirty with the engine pieces and materials used in engineering! I think more S.T.E.M. experiences need to be shown around the world and actually go to schools to help all children get the experience and get the word out to women and girls and everyone else who have the love for it but need help to find the opportunities.

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