Ada Lovelace Day is just two months away on Tuesday 12 October, and we're looking forward to celebrating the women whose discoveries or inventions have changed the way we live and how we understand the world. The question is, who are those women? We’d like you to tell us who you admire most and why! We want to hear about women whose inventions have changed how we live, women like Hedy Lamarr who invented radio frequency hopping, used these days in tech like Bluetooth. Or Dr Patricia Bath, who invented laser cataract surgery. Or Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin who discovered that stars are made of hydrogen and helium. We especially want to hear about lesser known women, women of colour, and women who aren’t from Europe or North America! Just leave a comment below with your nominee’s name, her discovery/invention, and a link to more info or you can just send me an email with your suggestion, and help us compile a long list of awesome women in STEM! #ALD21 #AdaLovelaceDay #AdaLovelaceDay2021 #womeninSTEM #womenintech #womeninscience #womeninengineering #stem #women #science #tech
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If you can't make it to The Royal Institution to watch Ada Lovelace Day in person in October, why not organise a watch party and enjoy the event via our livestream? Whether you gather in person or organise a distributed party online, you'll be joining people from around the world in celebrating women in STEM!
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If we want to create long-lasting change to the gender balance in STEM, we need long-lasting funding. That's why we're now offering discounts to sponsors who make multi-year commitments.
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Take a look at our newsletter, to find out what's going on in the world of women in STEM!
ALD News: Antonia Pontiki makes Forbes Under 30 list, Yasmin Ali Powers Up, Young Women Engineer of the Year Awards nominations open
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It's a challenging time to put prices up, and I've delayed publishing this announcement here because it is a bit of a scary step, but after 15 years it's about time we nudged our lowest sponsorship tier upwards a little bit.
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Ada Infrastructure, sponsors of Ada Lovelace Day Live, are highlighting the contributions of women in STEM, starting with mathematician Gladys West.
Introducing Ada's STEM Spotlight Series, a program dedicated to highlighting heroes in the field of STEM, uplifting their impactful contributions. Premiering this series, we proudly feature Gladys West—a remarkable mathematician and technology trailblazer. Graduating as valedictorian from Virginia State University, Gladys joined the naval base in Dahlgren, VA in the early 1950s, becoming one of the first two African-American women among four Black employees. Her pivotal role in the Seasat project laid the foundation for today's Global Positioning Systems (GPS), involving data collection from Earth-orbiting satellites and groundbreaking work with "supercomputers." In recognition of Gladys West's monumental contributions to modern GPS technology, she was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame during a ceremony in 2018 at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. Today, we celebrate Gladys West as a distinguished STEM trailblazer whose impactful work continues to shape our technological landscape. #STEMTrailblazer #GPSInnovation #GladysWestLegacy #AdaInfrastructure #SustainableFuture #DigitalInfrastructure #AdaLovelace #TechnologyForGood #DataCenterCapacity #TransformativeCompanies #CommunityImpact #PositiveImpact #WomenInStem https://lnkd.in/dVNAqT2E
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We've lots of fascinating stuff in our newsletter this month, including a new Ada Lovelace short film, International Women's Day at The Royal Institution, and reports into women at work from WORK180 and diversity in tech from Tech Talent Charter. We welcome back four of our fabulous sponsors, Digital Science, Arden University, Ada Infrastructure and Redgate Software, and have lots more news, plus a bumper crop of interesting links. Take a look, and if you want our news by email, there's a subscription link at the bottom!
ALD News: Ada Lovelace short film, IWD @ The Ri, Work180 and Tech Talent Charter reports
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If you want to increase diversity, don't just launch a women's network or 'employee resource group', develop a proper change management strategy and make concrete changes that will last.
Using change management techniques to design DEI interventions that work
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It’s my belief that you can’t be an advocate for gender equality if you ask women to work for free. So I don’t.
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Sponsoring Ada Lovelace Day creates a lot of opportunities for companies to actively engage their staff and community, and to demonstrate their commitment to gender equality. Here's how you can get the best out of your ALD sponsorship.
How to get the most out of your sponsorship
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Julie Webster, Juno Mission Chief Engineer, following the successful completion of the Cassini Mission to Saturn where she was the Spacecraft Operations Manager and Chief Engineer. She has been at JPL for twenty-five years. Her interplanetary spacecraft experience has been primarily in Mission Operations, on Magellan, Mars Observer, Cassini, and now the Juno mission at Jupiter.