SI Weybridge & District soroptimists hosted a Year Group assembly on April 17th at Cobham Free School. This followed a successful launch of the British Science Week Poster Competition with the science teaching team during a February assembly. The SI #STEM team presented Soroptimist #STEMSTAR certificates and Amazon vouchers to 5 winning poster artists and 3 excellent runners up. The winners in Years 7,8 and 9 created posters presenting research information on “the impact of women over time on science and technology”. With so many excellent posters submitted by boys and girls (all created in a short time), judging was fierce and intense.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THOSE WHO WENT THE EXTRA MILE TO ENTER!
Standards as you can see were very high. The top 5 posters were submitted to the national #BSW competition; now we all eagerly await the news of the results.
This #soroptimist program action in schools is part of our SI #stemlearning action to increase awareness of the disparity in #genderequality in key roles in the workplace. We work with #Elmbridge schools to encourage girls to select Science, Maths, Computer Sciences and/or DT to enable access to technical jobs which enable community prosperity. These roles are key to our future mother earth. We provide information and support for STEM related future career paths be it via apprenticeships or academic studies.
Huge thanks to the school SLT and teaching staff for their trust, help and support and to the wonderful young people who were so engaging and motivated throughout this project. Well done what a super outcome.
