VEX Robotics Competition team submission to the Girls Into STEM initiative

1. KEITHKEITH
QUINESQUINES
What is Engineering?What is Engineering?

2. Who are theWho are the
KEITH QUINES?KEITH QUINES?

4. What does EngineeringWhat does Engineering
mean to us?mean to us?

6. What is Engineering?What is Engineering?

8. Where engineering canWhere engineering can
take us?take us?

9. Where can we go?
• Engineers made aeroplanes and cars that
can take you to other towns, cities and
countries.
• They also made rockets and spaceships
so we can go into outer space. This is
helpful for jobs that are not where you are.
Engineers made all of our transport that
we use today.

10. Where can we go in life?
• Engineering is a high paying job that has a
lot of options within the job. You can have
aerospace, agricultural, automotive,
biological and bio stems, biomedical,
building, electrical and many more!

11. • We think that in the
future our engineering
skills will improve
and there will be
hover cars and cars
that can go to the
moon. if engineers
can do that then they
could possibly make
rocket boots.

13. Engineering in MorayEngineering in Moray

14. Boat o’ Brig!

16. Flood Alleviation - Elgin

17. The Scheme
The flood alleviation scheme started April
2011 and is costing £86 million. It is
Scotland’s biggest ever flood scheme to
date. The scheme is still ongoing because
on the 11th
of August 2014 it protected
approximately 270 residential and 75
business premises from flooding, avoiding
damages of an estimated £29 million.

18. Damage before the scheme!

19. Why are there no femaleWhy are there no female
engineers?engineers?

20. Why are there no female
engineers?
This got us thinking made us question ourselves
and did some research …..

21. Women classed as a joke?
Women are now welcome in engineering
more that everbut…..
-We are still considered a lowerability to
men
-Less encouraged
-Not a lot of female role-models

22. Statistics
The ratio of men to women in
engineering is hard to imagine by
just statistics/ Percentages and
numbers. These charts show vast
majority are most defiantly men.
Statistics
Only 6% of the engineering workforce in the UK is female
Nearly half (46%) of all co-ed secondary state schools sent no girls on to
do physics at A level in 2011 . Why are girls so put of stereotypical men
based subjects? Is it the pressure, the feeling of being in-superior?
Yet women are winning in the success rates despite are minority
…
Women have earned 57% of all bachelor’s degrees and about
half of all science and
engineering (S&E) bachelor’s degrees since the late 1990s
Only 5.5% of engineering professionals are female
and only 27% of engineering and science technicians
are female

23. Why are there no female
engineers?
This got us thinking made us question ourselves
and did some research …..

24. Women classed as a joke?
Women are now welcome in engineering
more that everbut…..
-We are still considered a lowerability to
men
-Less encouraged
-Not a lot of female role-models

25. Statistics

26. Women should be notWomen should be not
seen,seen, or heardor heard
In fact... Women overthe years have not
received credit fortheirworkbecause until 30
years ago it was frowned upon to even see a
female engineer.
Women nevergot credit fortheirworknot
only in engineering but in all men dominated
careers including:

27. Ada LovelaceAda Lovelace•Ada Lovelace was often referred to as the
worlds first computer programmer.
•Ada Lovelace was the daughter of the great
English poet Lord Byron.
•Ada Lovelace was known as ‘The
enchantress of Numbers.’
•Ada Lovelace was one of the first minds to
speculate about artificial intelligence.
•Ada’s notes revealed that she foresaw the
potential for computer-generated music.
•Ada’s mother taught her math and science
at a very young age.
•Ada had a widely known fascination with
magical beliefs.
•During her twenties, Ada developed a
serious gambling problem.
•Ada’s life ended at the young age of 36.

28. Rosalind FranklinRosalind Franklin
RosalindFranklinwas bornin
London, Englandon25thJuly
1920. Whenshewas 15, she
decidedto becomea
scientist.
Aftergraduationin1941,
shewas awardedaresearch
scholarshipto workongas
chromatography, but left in
1942to workat theBritish
Coal UtilizationResearch
Association, whereshe
workedonthemicrostructure
of coke.
As aresult of herresearch,
shegainedherDoctorof
Philosophy(PhD) degree
fromCambridgein1945.

29. Lise MeitnerLise Meitner
•Lise Meitner was born on the 7th
of
November 1878 in Vienna Austria.
•She is from a Jewish family.
•She entered the university of
Vienna in 1901 studying physics.
•Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner and
Fritz Strassmann Became the first
to recognized that the aranium Atom

30. Martha CostonMartha Coston,,
Martha was left widowed and with 3
children had to find a way to
support herself and children.
One of the ideas was a pyrotechnic
(signal) flare.
Her children would have been her
inspiration to push her into making
the flare so she could support them.
Martha sold the rights to her flare to
the U.S. Navy then paid her
$20,000 for it.

31. Jocelyn Bell Burnell –
Jocelyn Bell Burnell –
PulsarsPulsars
EstherLederberg –
EstherLederberg –Replica Plating
Replica Plating
Chien-Shiung Wu –
Chien-Shiung Wu –
Disproved law of Parity
Disproved law of Parity
Nettie Stevens –
Nettie Stevens –
Sex determination
Sex determination
And many, many more….And many, many more….
Margaret Knight –
Margaret Knight –
Paper Bag machine
Paper Bag machine

32. Surely attitudes haveSurely attitudes have
changed in 2015?changed in 2015?

33. SirTimHunt
“Let me tell you about
my trouble with girls …
three things happen
when they are in the lab
… You fall in love with
them, they fall in love
with you and when you
criticise them, they cry”
June 2015

35. Why are we interested in
Engineering?
We are interested in engineering because:
• We would like to do engineering in the
future.
• We can prove to everyone that girls can
be engineers too.

36. The KEITH QUINES are:
• Kayleigh Dalgarno
• Ellie Broadley
• Amanda Morrison
• Heather Reynolds
• Melissa Selby
• Aimee Gartly
• Jamie Lambert
• Lauren McKenzie
• Dana Halley
• Alana Smith
• Molly Riddell
• Kelsey-Leigh Lundie
• Abigail Carruthers
• Kayleigh Tidball
• Natasha Skinner