Avondale STEMsters – Celebrate Ada Lovelace Day

Avondale College STEMsters (year 12 & 13 female students) invited year 9 and 10 female students to an ‘awareness session’ as part of celebrating Ada Lovelace day. The STEMsters gave a presentation highlighting who Ada Lovelace was, as well as other prominent key Women in STEM, and how the junior students could get involved in the groups’ support network and activities to help them in their STEM subjects.

The College’s female STEM teachers were invited by the STEMsters to give a brief summary of how they got into their STEM subject and this was followed by a Q & A from students. The celebration was complete with baked goodies, courtesy  of the STEMsters. The junior students then took part in a STEMster kahoot quiz and a challenge of creating a poster about a current New Zealand Woman in STEM – winners and posters advertised in the College’s Heartbeat magazine later this term.