{"id":334,"date":"2019-03-13T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/?p=334"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:21:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T09:21:07","slug":"stem-competition-and-network-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/2019\/03\/13\/stem-competition-and-network-event\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Competition and network event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WESBath networking event started with some keen speakers reflecting on their careers and how they have come into their roles. The speakers spoke about how a mentor has been essential to their success, having someone push you to achieve\u00a0more than you thought you could achieve and supporting you when things do not go as planned. They also discussed their issues faced as a woman or a trans woman in the workplace and the strategies they employed to assert dominance in their managerial roles, and how quickly a team came to accept them. Many interesting questions were asked reflecting their struggles as mothers, gender percentage differences in managerial roles.<\/p>\n<p>Atkins kindly sponsored a STEM competition;\u00a0students were asked to design an educational toy or a classroom activity. I designed a toy aimed at the younger years to aid their maths skills. The concept was a\u00a0 \u00a0toy duck named Lucy who asks maths questions, such as \u201cWhat is 6 x 7?\u201d and then allows the child time to work out the answer before telling them. This toy was designed to help children who thrive using auditory learning techniques.<\/p>\n<p>To enhance the educational aspect of my design, it can be adapted to be a technology classroom activity as the circuit is quite basic. It could be made using breadboards, allowing the students to learn about resistors, chips, speakers, capacitors and other elementary circuit elements.\u00a0 I was very pleased that\u00a0I was awarded the winning prize!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-335\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Joanne-Hones-collecting-STEM-Prize.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-335 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/83\/2019\/03\/Joanne-Hones-collecting-STEM-Prize-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanne Hones, first prize winner of the Atkins STEM competition.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Joanna Hones,\u00a0MEng (hons) Computer Systems Engineering (Final year)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The WESBath networking event started with some keen speakers reflecting on their careers and how they have come into their roles. The speakers spoke about how a mentor has been essential to their success, having someone push you to achieve\u00a0more...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2,14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","category-events","category-networking","tag-networking"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/women-in-engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}