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WISE (Women into Science and Engineering) is a social enterprise committed to promoting female talent in science, engineering and technology. Development Director Mhairi Crawford tells us how it’s encouraging girls to consider STEM careers
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What sort of activities does your work encompass?
WISE has a specific programme for young people, called People
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What are the aims of WISE in relation to children and
young people?
WISE is an organisation committed to improve gender
balance in STEM. To do this, we need to support women already working in STEM roles, bring women back to STEM roles, help them retrain if they want to move towards a STEM role, and guide more young people towards STEM
careers. What this means for children and young people is that we want to encourage girls to look at the huge breadth of options open to them and consider where a career in STEM could take them. Often, children and young people (and their parents/carers) don’t know what’s out there – just think of the breadth of job roles that didn’t previously exist and the impact these have on society and the environment.
Like Me. It’s a session aimed at girls to help raise awareness and aspirations, and is delivered by WISE members, STEM ambassadors, teachers and career advisers. The aim of the resource is to help KS3 and KS4 girls understand where they might fit in the world of work by self-identifying with a range of adjectives that match to a personality type. From this, they can explore job roles and meet people who have the same type as them so they can interact with women who are doing this already. Often, it introduces girls to job roles they may never have heard of.
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How has the programme been received in schools?
People Like Me is a little bit special in that it comes from a
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