{"id":1102,"date":"2019-03-12T12:20:53","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:20:57","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T12:20:57","slug":"bame-girls-in-engineering-celebrates-international-womens-day-with-rolls-royce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/bame-girls-in-engineering-celebrates-international-womens-day-with-rolls-royce\/","title":{"rendered":"BAME Girls in Engineering  celebrates International Women\u2019s Day with Rolls Royce"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Friday 8<sup>th<\/sup> March 2019, UWE Bristol project <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/bame-girls-in-engineering-opportunity-to-encourage-diversity-in-engineering\/\">BAME Girls in Engineering<\/a> celebrated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.internationalwomensday.com\/\">International Women&#8217;s Day<\/a> with a visit to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/\">Rolls Royce<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"509\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/BAME-girls-in-Engineering-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/BAME-girls-in-Engineering-logo.jpg 509w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2018\/11\/BAME-girls-in-Engineering-logo-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 509px) 85vw, 509px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The project team, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/UdonnaOkeke\">Dr Udonna Okeke<\/a>, took BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity) girls from <a href=\"http:\/\/cityacademy.bristol.sch.uk\/\">City Academy Bristol<\/a> to the Rolls Royce site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rolls-royce.com\/about\/heritage-trust\/branches\/bristol-branch.aspx\">in Filton<\/a> for half a day. They received an inspirational presentation session by successful women at Rolls Royce from across the world, tours around the different facilities and a networking session with senior leadership and employees of Rolls Royce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Udonna told us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;The students left the event highly inspired, knowing that they can be the next generation of engineers that can impact the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"784\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/03\/IMG_4926_2-1-1-1024x784.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1104\" 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The project team, led by Dr Udonna Okeke, took BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnicity) girls from City Academy Bristol to the Rolls Royce site in Filton for half a day. They received &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/bame-girls-in-engineering-celebrates-international-womens-day-with-rolls-royce\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BAME Girls in Engineering  celebrates International Women\u2019s Day with Rolls Royce&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":1105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,24,18],"tags":[30,131,70,32],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-outreach","category-schools","tag-diversity","tag-diversity-in-stem","tag-udonna-okeke","tag-women-in-stem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1109,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions\/1109"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}