Women in STEM advent calendar: Day 4 – Wang Zhenyi

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This winter, we are celebrating the festive season by honouring 25 amazing women in STEM, some of which you might not know of!

Wang Zhenyi

Wang Zhenyi

Astronomer, mathematician
1768 – 1797
China

An acclaimed Qing Dynasty scholar, Wang Zhenyi studied the movements of the sun, moon and planets, describing the relationship between solar and lunar eclipses and devising a demo to explain the latter. She also wrote about gravity and how to calculate equinoxes. She simplified complex mathematical proofs and texts, and developed easier methods for multiplication and division.

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Day 3 – Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte Day 5 – Louise Bourgeois Boursier

Women in STEM advent calendar: Day 3 – Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte

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This winter, we are celebrating the festive season by honouring 25 amazing women in STEM, some of which you might not know of!

Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte

Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte

First female Native American medical doctor
17 June 1865 – 18 September 1915
Omaha Reservation, United States

Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte, a member of the Omaha tribe, was the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree, graduating at the top of her class in 1889. She worked as a physician on the Omaha Reservation, founding a hospital, and running public health campaigns on preventative medicine, hygiene and temperance. She was also a activist, fighting for tribal land rights.

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Day 2 – Victoria Drummond MBE Day 4 – Wang Zhenyi

 

Women in STEM advent calendar: Day 2 – Victoria Drummond MBE

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This winter, we are celebrating the festive season by honouring 25 amazing women in STEM, some of which you might not know of!

Victoria Drummond MBE

Victoria Drummond MBE

First woman marine engineer in Britain
14 Oct 1894 – 25 Dec 1978
United Kingdom

Victoria Drummond was the first woman to serve in the British Merchant Navy and join the Institute of Marine Engineers. She served on 49 ocean voyages, as well as supervising shipbuilding in her native Scotland. She was awarded an MBE and the Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea after staying alone at her post in the engine room when her ship, the SS Bonita, came under fire during WW2.

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Day 1 – Tapputi Day 3 – Dr Susan La Flesche Picotte

 

Women in STEM advent calendar: Day 1 – Tapputi

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This winter, we are celebrating the festive season by honouring 25 amazing women in STEM, some of which you might not know of!

Tapputi

Tapputi

First known chemist
1,200 BCE
Iraq

Babylonian parfumier and chemist Tapputi oversaw the royal court perfumery, creating fragrant substances for medicinal and religious purposes. She had a detailed knowledge of chemistry, especially solvents, as well as processes such as extraction, distillation and cold enfleurage. Her descriptions of her still and the process of distillation are the earliest in human history.

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Day 2 – Victoria Drummond

New careers poster: What kind of technologist could I be?

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What kind of technologist are you

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We are delighted to be able to finally reveal our latest careers poster, What Kind Of Technologist Could I Be?, created in collaboration with Stack Overflow, the internet’s largest online community for software developers.

Over the last few months, a team at Stack Overflow led by design managers Kristina Lustig and Rennie Abraham have used metadata about their job listings, as well as results from their 2018 Developer Surveys, in order to identify ten broad categories of job in the tech industry. Together with Ada Lovelace Day founder Suw Charman-Anderson, they then crafted descriptions that we hope will inspire girls to consider the wide variety of roles available to them in tech.

The poster aims to explode the idea that the only people who work in tech are programmers, and that traditionally female-coded roles, such as Teacher, Communicator and Facilitator are ‘not really tech jobs’.

The role descriptions are left intentionally general so that students can more easily explore the nuances of different jobs within each category. That also allows teachers, parents and career advisors to talk through the personal attributes that attract students to a particular role type, rather than focus on a narrow set of technical skills which might initially seem intimidating.

“Ada Lovelace is a hero to many at Stack Overflow (we even have a conference room named after her in our NYC office!)” said Lustig. “We were excited to do our small part in supporting Ada Lovelace Day, especially since, as the world’s largest community for developers, we share a passion for making tech more inclusive.”

As with our other careers posters, What Kind Of Technologist Could I Be? is available as a free download, and as a print-on-demand poster via our shop at RedBubble.