{"id":5994,"date":"2026-03-13T12:16:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T11:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/?p=5994"},"modified":"2026-03-18T08:06:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T07:06:32","slug":"great-support-for-stem-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/2026\/03\/13\/great-support-for-stem-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Support for STEM 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The finals of our annual STEM challenge took place on March 12<sup>th<\/sup> at Bournemouth University and we were very well supported by local dignitaries. His Majesty\u2019s Lord Lieutenant of Dorset, the Mayor of Christchurch, Mayor of Poole, Sherriff of Poole and Deputy Mayor of Bournemouth were all in attendance and very impressed by the standard of work and commitment demonstrated by the participants. Professor Dooley said in his speech:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTo the girls who have taken part today: you should feel incredibly proud. You were not just asked to create something clever, you were asked to think about how your ideas could help people in the poorest parts of the world. That takes imagination, compassion and courage. Those are the very qualities the world needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The winning teams were all from Parkstone Grammar School; they are commended for their thoughtful and creative projects- photos to follow!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2026\/03\/STEM-26-chain-gang.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5995\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2026\/03\/STEM-26-chain-gang-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2026\/03\/STEM-26-chain-gang-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/bournemouth\/files\/2026\/03\/STEM-26-chain-gang.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photography by Eliza Naden (@elizanaden_photography)- with thanks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">If you are interested in this and would like to come along to a Soroptimist International Bournemouth meeting to find out more, please email us at sigbibournemouth@hotmail.co.uk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finals of our annual STEM challenge took place on March 12th at Bournemouth University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":839,"featured_media":5995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Great Support for STEM 2026 | News | Blog | Events | SI Bournemouth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Bournemouth : Blog &amp; News : Great Support for STEM 2026 : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Bournemouth . 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