Events 2017

Peterborough STEM Festival is celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics inspired by Ada Lovelace Day, a free to attend family-friendly event held in the centre of Peterborough on the 1st October 2017. Our mission is to provide a day of fun activities to celebrate and to experience the wonders of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics […]

Suw Charman-Anderson talks about why she set up Ada Lovelace Day and some of the other women who have made outstanding contributions to computer science. With time for questions from the audience at the end. 6:30-8pm - Doors open at 6pm Suw Charman-Anderson is the founder of Ada Lovelace Day, an international celebration of the achievements of […]

Please join NZ Tech Women on Ada Lovelace Day 10th October 2017, as they host a very special screening of CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap described by Film Journal critic Doris Toumarkine as "Polished, entertaining and informative, ‘CODE’ is mainly a trove of impressive women and articulate voices addressing an important issue". Ada Lovelace Day […]

O projeto Emíli@s da UTFPR Curitiba comemora mais um ano de Ada Lovelace! Teremos oficina, palestras e entre outras atividades. Venha comemorar com as Emíli@s! Logo logo, postaremos nosso cronograma, mas lá vai algumas informações sobre o evento: Data: 10 de outubro de 2017 Local: Miniauditório da UTFPR Curitiba-Centro Endereço: Av. Sete de Setembro, 3165 Observações: Você […]

The University of Southampton Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WiSET) group are unveiling a mosaic made up of hundreds of selfies of women from across the university. The aim of the mosaic is to increase the visual representation of women within the university whilst celebrating their achievements. The mosaic is located at the Southampton […]

A meeting of like-minded individuals applying their STEM talents to the art of baking and crafts. Bring science themed cupcakes and mathematical meringues to share, and spend an hour knitting a numbat, painting a peptostreptococcus, quilting a quaternary arch, or borrow a crochet hook and start your own amigurumi STEM role model library or coral reef. Alternatively, just […]

For the first time we organise the Ada Lovelace Day in the Institute of Biosystem Engineering, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poland. Our teachers/scientists, our alumnus and our guests will tell us about their experiences working in STEM.  

Our Ada Lovelace Day evening event. Ada Lovelace wrote the world’s first complex algorithm in 1843 and was then written out of history. This performance tells her story using an LED dress which she operates – live on stage – using her wearable tech satin glove. Ada.Ada.Ada exists to help people, especially girls and women, engage with technology and […]

Come and join puppet Ada Lovelace, a Victorian visionary and the first computer programmer as she explores the history of computing and modern technology. Say hello to her side kick Robo Rob and join them in various games and activities. part of the international Ada Lovelace Day, a celebration of women in the sciences. Tickets […]

HIDDEN FIGURES is the hitherto untold tale that reorients our view of the space race of the 1960s by telling the stories of 3 brilliant African-American mathematicians at NASA (Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson) who serve as the brains behind a stunning achievement that galvanised the world but who were then written out of history. This is the incredible […]

Þriðjudaginn 17. október kl.18-21 Fab lab Ísafjörður býður stelpur og konur sérstaklega velkomnar í smiðjuna þar sem við munum heyra hver Ada Lovelace var, spjalla við konur á svæðinu sem eru rannsakandi og skapandi og boðið verður upp á smiðjur t.d. þrívíddarprentun. Ada Lovelace alþjóðlegur dagur sem fagnar afrekum kvenna í vísindum, tækni, verkfræði og […]

Jean Bacon was the first woman to be appointed to a Lectureship in the Computer Laboratory at the University of Cambridge in 1985. She is now Professor Emerita of Distributed Systems at the Computer Laboratory where she co-headed the Opera Research Group from its founding in the 1990s. Don't miss this chance to hear Jean […]

Ada Lovelace Day is an international celebration day for the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in these areas, and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM. Every […]

A talk by Elly Zupko — equity, diversity & inclusivity activist and communications expert Monday October 23rd 12:30pm-1:30pm Senate Chamber, N940 Ross Building Keele Campus In 2014, people across the world saw a lead scientist from the European Space Agency appear on international television to talk about the Philae lander mission wearing a garment covered […]

Finding Ways to Honour the Trailblazing Women of the Past & Future. In 2014, people across the world saw a lead scientist from the European Space Agency appear on international television to talk about the Philae lander mission wearing a garment covered in scantily-clad women. It became known as “that shirt.” Elly responded by designing […]

Ada Lovelace is widely celebrated as "the first programmer”, the “enchantress of numbers” whose unique “poetical science” enabled her to make startling predictions about modern computing in a famous 1843 paper about Charles Babbage’s proposed analytical engine. In this talk, Professor Ursula Martin (CBE FRSE, University of Oxford) will separate fact from myth, talk about what […]