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Women in Computing: Her Story

Centre for Computing History 1 Rene Court, Coldhams Road,, Cambridge

Her Story is an interactive exhibition celebrating women who live, breathe and work computing and tech. The focus is on celebrating women who work or have worked in technology through the stories that they can tell. The festival will include an interactive exhibition (included in standard museum admission price) as well as a series of […]

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Ada Lovelace Day at the Stephen Perse Foundation

Stephen Perse Foundation Senior School Union Rd, Cambridge

With a sustainability hackathon, talks from speakers such as Catherine Breslin from the Amazon Alexa speech recognition project, assemblies, careers displays, a trip to the Computing museum and a code cracking treasure hunt, we are celebrating Ada Lovelace Day with a bang!

Free

Ada Lovelace – an Artistic Installation

CardiffMet CST and CSM 200 Western Avenue, Cardiff

At entrance of the Cardiff School of Technologies and Cardiff School of Management at Cardiff Metropolitan University we are celebrating Ada Lovelace day (9th of October) with an artistic installation of an image of Ada Lovelace. The machine control of the CNC machine that made the wooden grid holding the balloons was originally conceived by […]

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Finding Ada Scavenger Hunt

Transport for London 55 Broadway, London

Happy #AdaLovelaceDay! To celebrate Ada and women in STEM , we're excited to tell you all about our #FindingAva Scavenger Hunt! The prize? A London Transport VIP Bumper Package, including: A ride in a London Underground cab A year’s access to the London Transport Museum A tour of the London Underground Control Centre How to take part: Screenshot […]

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WinSTEM week

Various locations in Alberta Canada Alberta

Celebrating Women in STEM, past - present -future, in Alberta Canada. https://www.awsn.org/winstem

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Ongoing

Ada Lovelace Day Celebrations – York College

YORK COLLEGE Sim Balk Lane, York

York College have arranged two days of Ada Lovelace Day themed celebrations, including talks and Q&A sessions from local businesses, a poster competition, stands about careers and STEM courses, and a take over of the college TV screens with famous women in STEM and their achievements.

Free

AdaDay 2018 Madrid

Medialab-Prado Plaza de las Letras, Calle de la Alameda, 15

Talks and workshop (more info to come)

Free

Ada Lovelace Day 2018 at the School of Engineering – University of Valencia

ETSE-UV Avda de la Universidad sn, Burjassot

The School of Engineering of the University of Valencia (ETSE-UV) and IEEE WIE Student Branch Affinity Group de la Universitat de València organize Ada Lovelace Day celebration in 2018 with the following activities:   Video. During the week prior to the celebration, we will take pictures in the classrooms of the classmates, giving emphasis to […]

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Ada Lovelace Day at Hofstra University – “The Internet needs you: How your data can change the world”

Hofstra University 1000 Fulton Avenue, Hempstead

Monica Stephens is an Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Science in the Geography Department at the University at Buffalo (NY). Previously she was the director of the Institute of Cartographic Design at Humboldt State where she led a team in generating political, social, and economic insights from visualizing large datasets of user-generated content. Ada Lovelace […]

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Code craft

Department of Biology, University of York, UK Wentworth Way, York

Come to our Pi Lab to try your hand at coding, crafting, or both! Use some of our electronic gadgets to light up LEDs in every colour under the sun, hook them up with conductive thread so that your home-knitted socks twinkle as you walk, express the Keeling Curve by the sample rate of your […]

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Out of the frying pan and onto the firing range

University of Southampton University Road, Southampton

In autumn 2016, after working as a Lecturer and Hearing Scientist at the University of Southampton for a decade, Rachel van Besouw took a huge risk and ventured outside of academia for the first time. A few months later on a wintery, overcast February day with a temperature of 1 degree Celsius and a biting […]

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Women in Science Week NMS – Ada Lovelace Day

King's College London Nash Lecture Theatre, Strand, London

Please join us for Ada Lovelace Day 2018, NMS’s celebration of women in science and an exploration of the issues faced in STEM subjects surrounding the underrepresentation of women at all levels. The day's lead speaker will be Professor Barbara Shollock, who will be joining the Faculty in January 2019 as the inaugural Head of […]

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Ada Lovelace Day Wikithon (Montreal, Canada)

McGill University Humanities and Social Sciences Library, 3549 McTavish Street, Montreal

Hey Everyone! To celebrate Ada Lovelace's birthday Broad Science 500 Women Scientists Montreal, and Science & Policy Exchange are hosting a wiki-edit-thon on October 10th. https://www.facebook.com/events/332803350601276/ Join the global quest to increase the representation of female scientists on wikipedia!! Let's make sure woman in STEM get the recognition they deserve 🙌🏽🙌🏽  This mission was started by […]

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Celebrating Ada Lovelace at dxw digital

8-9 Hoxton Square, N1 6NU 8-9 Hoxton Square

On October 10th, we're celebrating Ada Lovelace Day to honour the pioneering women in technology and the public sector. We've invited a panel of five women to speak about obstacles they may have faced in their careers and then inviting attendees to ask questions and share their own experiences. Panellists TBC Drinks and snacks included! […]

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Women and the Stars

Royal Astronomical Society Burlington House, London

Tickets via Eventbrite In Women and the Stars, Dr Helen Klus from the Royal Astronomical Society shows how women have shaped our understanding of the universe. From painting prehistoric star maps on the walls of caves, to discovering dark matter in the Galaxy, to commanding space shuttles and waking in space. At the same time, these […]

Free

Give IT a Go: is it as easy as it sounds?

Centre for Computing History 1 Rene Court, Coldhams Road,, Cambridge

Give IT a Go: is it as easy as it sounds? is our 2018 panel debate on women and computing, chaired by Suw Charman-Anderson, founder of Ada Lovelace Day. Can women get in, stay in and get back in to careers in tech? Bring your stories on careers in tech (broadly defined, not just computing!) and join us in this lively […]

£3

The Turbulent Lives of the Byron Women – In Byron’s Wake

Waterstones Hampstead 68-69 Hampstead High Street, London

We are very pleased to be hosting a talk with Miranda Seymour on her new “double-biography”: In Byron's Wake – this is a book to behold! In 1816, Annabella Milbanke fled from her notorious husband Lord Byron, taking with her their baby daughter, the future Ada Lovelace. Ada became a pioneering mathematician and leading scientist, […]

£5.60

Dublin Ada LoveLace Day 2018

The Digital Depot The Digital Hub, Roe Lane, Dublin

LoveLaceSpace is delighted to run our first Ada Lovelace Day. Thanks to Wikimedia Ireland who will be running our Wikipedia Edithon activity. The event is FREE. Schedule 18:30 REGISTRATION 19:00 Welcome and Introduction to each activity 19:15 Activities begin 20:45 Start tidying up 21:00 EVENT ENDS FAQ What do I need to bring? We do not provide […]

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