{"id":367,"date":"2013-05-18T22:00:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/?p=367"},"modified":"2013-06-08T18:36:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-08T18:36:31","slug":"75-years-of-service-to-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/southern-england\/2013\/05\/18\/75-years-of-service-to-bournemouth\/","title":{"rendered":"75 Years of Service to Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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SI Bournemouth Members were delighted and honoured that Margaret Oldroyd, SIGBI President-Elect, joined the Mayor of Bournemouth, Rita Renton (President of SI Southern England), members of our Friendship Link SI Penrith and over 100 other Soroptimists and guests on 18th<\/sup> May to help us celebrate 75 years of service to Soroptimism and to Bournemouth.<\/p>\n

They were also grateful for the support of Soroptimists from\u00a0 Ashford, Central and South West London, Kingston-upon-Thames, Oxford (including SIGBI Vice-President, Jenny Vince), Poole, Southampton, Stockport and Woking, former Soroptimists and Catherine Welch, Guide Commissioner for Dorset.<\/p>\n

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The Arnewood School – Eleanor Procter, Jemma Wood, Lois Fry Samuels (rear), Savannah Contreras,
Mayor of Bournemouth, President SI Bournemouth Kirsteen Harding,
Bournemouth School for Girls – Georgina Murray, Inger Nyman, Amy Gribble,
Speaker Roma Agrawal, President-Elect SIGBI Margaret Oldroyd,
President SI Southern England Rita Renton.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Since September 1938 members of the Club have given service to the local community as well as nationally and internationally and part of their celebrations looked forward to the next generation of women and to help people less fortunate than themselves.<\/p>\n

With only one in five girls opting for the whole range of science subjects, they therefore decided to issue a STEM-based Science Challenge (S<\/strong>cience, T<\/strong>echnology, E<\/strong>ngineering, M<\/strong>athematics) last autumn to teams of girls in Years 9 and 10 at local schools, before they make subject choices for GCSE, A level and degree studies.<\/p>\n

Margaret Oldroyd told the Club, \u201cYour competition embodies the SIGBI mission to inspire action and transform lives. It focuses on women and girls, on educating, enabling and empowering them by making them aware of new career choices and helps them to acquire new skills and confidence.\u00a0 Our young women\/people are full of ideas and more than able to take up the challenge which you set to improve the world which they are going to lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Challenge was to design, build and cost a project to help people in the poorest parts of our world. \u00a0It had to be sustainable, fit for purpose and cost effective in a world where 884 million people lack access to clean water, nearly three and a half million people die each year from water, sanitation and hygiene related causes and every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related illness.<\/p>\n

Five judges drawn from local companies and organizations – Bournemouth Borough Council, Fonix, Procter and Gamble and Sembcorp Bournemouth Water \u2013 selected the winning projects, one in each year group, in March.<\/p>\n

The winners of the \u201cCelebrating Science Challenge\u201d were:<\/p>\n