Engineers at different stages of their journey inspire young girls at Go Girl this week!
We’ve all heard the phrase “You can’t be what you can’t see”. A huge shout out to Jess Huynh and her team of volunteers at Go Girl for hosting an event that attracted more than 1700 girls to consider pathways in STEM! Deakin University was a great location to host such an amazing event!
I believe this is one of the best ways to address the under representation of women in STEM celebrating and introducing young girls to women that are passionate about STEM and can demonstrate how they’re making a difference through applications in STEM.
It was so great to have ladies on the panels RTL hosted that included Louisa De Vries, Consultant and Mechanical Engineer at BOSCH, Serena Webster, a BOSCH intern and currently studying Mechanical Engineering at RMIT University, Angie Aulia, RTL facilitator and currently studying Mechatronics Engineering at Monash University and Rosemary Nguyen a former RTL Student Leader and currently in Year 11 at Melbourne Girls Grammar.
Below is Rosemary in Grade 7 at the last in person Go Girl event in 2018. So great to have her on the panel sharing with girls in Grade 5 & 6 what she did back then when participating in Real Time Learning Workshops. Some of these photos we taken 5 years ago.
So thankful to Gavin Smith, Chairman and President at BOSCH that supports and encourages his staff to be involved in various outreach activities such as Learn@Bosch, Go Girl, F1 in Schools, hosting Real Time Learning workshops and so much more.
Serena Webster, in her 2nd year of Engineering, recently started at BOSCH as an intern and works alongside Louisa De Vries. It was great for the girls to hear the diverse roles Louisa has had thus far on a journey that includes working for industries like Holden, Downer and Swinburne University before moving to BOSCH just over a year ago.
So many questions from the audience we simply could not answer them all. Our panel loved answering these questions and everyone felt the obvious engagement.
A huge shout to Angie Auila, that works as a facilitator at Cornish College one day a week with students in Year 8 and 9. This week Angie made arrangements for students in Year 5 and & 6 from Boneo PS to have a tour of the Monash Makerspace and meet her Monash Human Power Team that Angie is also a part of. We at Real Time Learning feel humbled by the willingness of people on our team, like Angie to inspire this next generation to consider pathways in STEM and more specifically Engineering.
Huge thank you to Louisa, Angie, Serena and Rosemary for Thursday.