{"id":72,"date":"2014-11-19T23:50:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/?p=72"},"modified":"2014-11-19T23:51:16","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T23:51:16","slug":"importance-of-stem-to-economic-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/2014\/11\/19\/importance-of-stem-to-economic-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Importance of STEM to economic growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #2c2b2b\">On the 10th September I was lucky enough to go on a training course titled: \u2018Importance of STEM to economic growth\u2019. It was an interesting day with very engaging speakers. It made me more motivated to focus on the bigger picture and how the public engagement and outreach we do is contributing to solving a social economic problem. These are some bullet points I made of the day \u2013 they are in note form. Averil McDonald gave a good talk:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"color: #2c2b2b\">\n<li>Setting up a STEM club could help motivate young people. Averil McDonald said the opposite as girls have too much to do.<\/li>\n<li>Inform STEM ambassador programme that ECSOutreach exists.<\/li>\n<li>Might be a good idea to set up parents classes e.g. internet safety etc. To build them up.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0We need to make sure we say comforting things to parents like: your child will be happy, not lonely, supported, we want people ewho excel at lanagugaes, personable etc.<\/li>\n<li>Make it relevant for girls \u2013&gt; bigger picture.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t do competitions<\/li>\n<li>Role models have to be like them (so people who have just started in year 1)<\/li>\n<li>Egos put them off<\/li>\n<li>Posters like \u2018Think like an engineer\u2019 do not work because they don\u2019t want to change who they are.<\/li>\n<li>Its good to tell girls they are discriminated against in Industry and say how the uni will help them.<\/li>\n<li>Computer Science is essentially linguistics\u00a0 \u2013 might be an idea to use similar words to marketing it to what psychology do to market their course.<\/li>\n<li>At transition points \u2013 postdoc etc \u2013 its important these women have increased visibility in the department, people know what they are doing and they are given the chance to shine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the 10th September I was lucky enough to go on a training course titled: \u2018Importance of STEM to economic growth\u2019. It was an interesting day with very engaging speakers. It made me more motivated to focus on the bigger &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/2014\/11\/19\/importance-of-stem-to-economic-growth\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Importance of STEM to economic growth<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":93719,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/93719"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/athenaswanecs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}