Ada Scotland Festival – starting 13 October
The Ada Scotland Festival is a series of online events focused on addressing gender imbalance in Computing Science education in Scotland. The University of Glasgow’s Dr Matthew Barr leads on the initiative, alongside Festival co-founders Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (Edinburgh Napier University) and Toni Scullion (dressCode) and a voluntary advisory board, drawn from across the sector.
The Ada Scotland Festival brings together organisations who are keen to bring more women and girls into computing and IT. It is:
• a celebration, aligned to Ada Lovelace Day,
• a new network, joining up people and activities in this space,
• a hub for girls and young women (eg at school) to get inspired about opportunities to study and work in computing and IT.
This year’s festival will take place entirely online. It kicks off on 13th October and will run a series of events and activities throughout the week.
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This is a wonderful event wish I had known sooner to promote it to classes who will be on October Break next week. Garnock Community Campus
Hi Fiona!
We’ll do our best to get the word out sooner next year, but we’re aiming to have as many of the event as possible recorded and posted on the site.
Activities like the video competition continue on into November, too! See https://ada.scot/2020/09/25/video-competition/
Thank you for your interest – hope you get to join us for one of the events at least!
This is a wonderful event wish I had known sooner to promote it to classes who will be on October Break next week.
Thank you for your interest – hope you get to join us for one of the events at least!
I will participate in the Ada Scotland Festival
You know what you’re talking about, why waste your intelligence on just posting videos to your blog when you could be giving us something enlightening to read?