The Mathematical Calendar: Ada Lovelace Day
What is it?
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day to highlight and celebrate the work of women in the STEM fields. It was founded in 2009 when journalist and blogger Suw Charman-Anderson got almost 2,000 people to pledge to blog about a woman in technology that they admire on website pledgebank. The resulting material was so overwhelmingly successful, with blogs, newspaper columns and even comics, that it garnered widespread media coverage and has grown every year since.
When is it?
Early October each year. This year it will be on 11th October.
What to expect?
You can expect to find many videos, articles and podcasts online from both traditional media outlets and bloggers about the achievements of women in STEM fields.
In addition to this there will be events held across the UK, as well as in other countries, in the form of talks or displays given to a general audience, or workshops specifically aimed at getting women involved in STEM activities.
You can find a list of events that will be happening across the country over at findingada.com, the home page for Ada Lovelace Day. As we are only in July there doesn't seem to be much on there for 2016 yet so have a look closer to the date, and if you are planning on organising an event yourself then you can register it on the website.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day to highlight and celebrate the work of women in the STEM fields. It was founded in 2009 when journalist and blogger Suw Charman-Anderson got almost 2,000 people to pledge to blog about a woman in technology that they admire on website pledgebank. The resulting material was so overwhelmingly successful, with blogs, newspaper columns and even comics, that it garnered widespread media coverage and has grown every year since.
When is it?
Early October each year. This year it will be on 11th October.
What to expect?
You can expect to find many videos, articles and podcasts online from both traditional media outlets and bloggers about the achievements of women in STEM fields.
In addition to this there will be events held across the UK, as well as in other countries, in the form of talks or displays given to a general audience, or workshops specifically aimed at getting women involved in STEM activities.
You can find a list of events that will be happening across the country over at findingada.com, the home page for Ada Lovelace Day. As we are only in July there doesn't seem to be much on there for 2016 yet so have a look closer to the date, and if you are planning on organising an event yourself then you can register it on the website.
Events from previous years:
To give a taste of the large number of events run across the UK here is just some of what was run in 2014, sourced from the findingada archives:
-Partnering with the Royal Institution a live event was run at the RI lecture theatre hosted by a fantastic line-up of female scientists, engineers, television presenters and lecturers all talking about their work. You can find videos of their talks on the RI youtube channel:
- A pub in Oxford, St Aldates Tavern, hosted an Ada Lovelace Night which saw 6 top female scientists from a diverse range of fields from Epidemiologists to Astrophysicists to Mathematicians chatting about the history of women in science and about their own work.
- Brighton saw free IT workshops for girls on topics such as computer programming, website design, animation and robotics.
-Universities and museums across the country in places like Liverpool, Edinburgh, Manchester, London and Southampton hosted talks on women in STEM fields.
You can find a large list of these and more in the findingada website event archives where this information was sourced from:
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