Women in STEM in Glasgow?

[Onebabyandamadcat]

A bit of a cheeky request but I was wondering if any of you living/working in Glasgow work in the field of STEM and would perhaps in interested in giving a wee talk to some local schools about your career for international women's Day?

If you don’t get any joy here you can request a STEM ambassador via this organisation. Good luck!
www.stem.org.uk/stem-ambassadors/schools-and-colleges

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Aw good luck with this - sounds fab. Feels like there are a lot of STEM women on Scotsnet although not 100% sure if Glasgow based. Hopeful bump for you.

Thanks everyone hopefully someone is up for it 🤞🏻. Thanks @woodstockj I've looked into the STEM ambassadors which will help.with some schools.

Just putting another wee hopeful bump on this!

Whereabouts, I am a STEM ambassador but with covid my PVG has lapsed. However if you add a request to the STEM ambassador sites, people can pick it up. Are you wanting someone to do a specific talk or a general careers talk.

Thanks for responding @ElizaB22 Im actually organising this for across the city. The plan is to have a list of people interested, when they can make it, what their role is and then have schools arrange a visit. For women's Day we're looking for a sort of careers talk - pretty much highlighting new STEM avenues beyond what they would maybe know about and also the fact that successful women are in these roles - it's not just men.

I'm in touch with the STEM ambassadors scheme and hopefully sorting some through that 🤞🏻

Can you private message me an email address. I'm not sure if there's anyone in the Glasgow office but I can make enquiries. We might not get permission to go into schools due to Covid at the moment though as there's a billion hoops to jump through for outside site visits!

Glasgow Science Centre used to do this kind of thing.

You could also film interviews with people and use that at multiple schools or live cast from zoom/teams and multiple schools could join. I am not in Glasgow but our LA is still not currently allowing visitors into schools.

I would love to know how you got into this role as it would be right up my street!

Thanks everyone I've got a few people lined up was just looking to see if there was anyone else.

@staryeyesurprise I'm a primary teacher but moved into head office after being the STEM lead in my school for a few years.