Name: Reena Pau
Date registered: October 25, 2013
Nov 30
The last two weeks have been great as I have been doing outreach sessions at Holy Family School and Bitterne Park Primary school. The classes had a challenge where they had a week to make a game with a learning objective. The majority wanted to teach people about their project on world war 2, healthy …
Nov 21
Our guest blogger is Devasena Prasad. She is s a researcher in the software sustainability group. She has been working closely with Codefirst. Here is her post: Code First:Girls is a not-for-profit organisation and is run by Entrepreneur First Community Interest Company and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. They offer free coding courses, events and …
Nov 21
A couple of weeks ago i arranged for the computing and maths female students at Barton Peveril College. I was at a school on that day so they went with their teacher and had the opportunity to watch a movie about the Eniac and learn about women in technology. They also got a chance to …
Nov 20
I was lucky enough to be invited to the Inspire College’s awards gala. I was invited because I have a work experience student who was receiving a maths award. Since Tom has been working with me, he has made a significant amount of progress. I am very proud of everything he is achieved. Well done …
Nov 12
I was lucky enough to spend a week at Sinclair Primary school. I spent the week there teaching year 6 pupils all about designing their own computer games. I went in with the intention to teach them Scratch and then to get them to make their own game. However the majority felt that Scratch was …
Nov 06
A month a go my friend Chris introduced me to Young Rewired State. The aim of which is to get young people into coding. I was put in touch with someone who wanted to start a group in Southampton. We had our first meeting and it went really well. The aim is to get more …
Nov 05
Erica went on a field trip to King Edwards School. She was there for the School’s digichamp event. She interacted with 60 school children. They learnt about Internet of Things, how objects can tweet and coding. It was a great event and we will put photos up very soon.
Oct 22
I was lucky enough to be invited to JPMorgan to deliver a talk about my PhD topic (from many years ago!) on how to get more women into computing. I compared the data from my PhD to some current data. So comparing thoughts and experiences of ICT to the new Computing GCSE. The talk was …
Oct 19
So this week I had a meeting with Yvonne and Gill. Yvonne is a Research Fellow and Gill is our marketing officer. We met to discuss the ECS prospectus and how we can demonstrate that we are diverse department. In order to do this: * Gill has organised a photo shoot to get an up …
Oct 10
It was very sad to see our Nano tech outreach lead Asa leave. I have just had a meeting with a very enthusiastic nano group who are very excited to talk about their new outreach plans. Watch this space!
