One of Lichfield’s Soroptimists in her capacity as STEM Ambassador assisted with a workshop at the National Women in Engineering Day held on Monday 23 June 2014 at Staffordshire University, Stoke Campus.
Girls from local schools attended a one day seminar where they were divided into three groups and learnt diverse skills from communicating over a distance, transmitting energy to a ping pong ball and designing for the third age.
Our club member, Bev Billings, was involved with the latter workshop where girls designed an aid to assist people suffering with arthritis to turn a key in a lock. Students designed a prototype in plasticine before melting polymorph granules in a water bath and moulding their ideas in plastic. The photograph shows a selection of their designs. Women represent only 7% of the total UK Engineering workforce and events like this and our Skirting Science & Technology Days aim to increase interest and eventually the number of women working in this field.
