{"id":698,"date":"2018-12-12T11:12:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T11:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=698"},"modified":"2018-12-18T09:29:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T09:29:58","slug":"miriam-cristofoletti-reaches-1600-pupil-in-leaders-award-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/miriam-cristofoletti-reaches-1600-pupil-in-leaders-award-presentation\/","title":{"rendered":"Miriam Cristofoletti reaches 1600 pupils in Leaders Award presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miriam Cristofoletti from the\u00a0Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics<\/a>\u00a0at UWE Bristol took up the challenge of presenting to over 1000 school pupils for the Leaders Award<\/a>\u00a0this week.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s OK not to have things working right the first time”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"Miriam, a student engineer in the\u00a0Bristol Robotics Laboratory<\/a>, took part \u201cmainly to inspire them, tell them never give up and that it\u2019s OK not to have things working right the first time”<\/em>.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

“It was inspiring and\u00a0thought-provoking”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Feedback from schools was outstanding, with schools reporting that Miriam’s presentation had particularly positive impacts for students from minority ethnic backgrounds, girls who struggle to engage with stereotypically ‘masculine’ topics and low attaining pupils now expressing that they would like be robotics engineers in the future.<\/p>\n

Professor Paul Olomolaiye<\/a>,\u00a0Pro Vice Chancellor \uff06 Executive Dean of the Faculty of Environment and Technology<\/a>, was delighted to celebrate Miriam’s achievement, saying that “she has made us all so proud”.<\/p>\n

Miriam is also part of a team of UWE Bristol students who are building a prototype<\/a> of one of last year’s winning designs.<\/p>\n

The Leaders Award<\/a>\u00a0is supported by UWE Bristol and asks children \u201cIf you were an engineer, what would you do?\u201d. This free competition asks students to find a problem, invent a solution, draw it, explain and send it in. Pupils are encouraged to both interview engineers and watch the online interviews. If you\u2019d like to take part in the Leaders Award as an engineer or school, please\u00a0get in touch with the team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Miriam Cristofoletti from the\u00a0Department of Engineering Design and Mathematics\u00a0at UWE Bristol took up the challenge of presenting to over 1000 school pupils for the Leaders Award\u00a0this week. “It\u2019s OK not to have things working right the first time” Miriam, a student engineer in the\u00a0Bristol Robotics Laboratory, took part \u201cmainly to inspire them, tell them never … Continue reading “Miriam Cristofoletti reaches 1600 pupils in Leaders Award presentation”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,52,8,24,18],"tags":[46,72,71],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-robotics-laboratory","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-leaders-awards","category-outreach","category-schools","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory","tag-leaders-award","tag-miriam-cristofoletti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","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=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":709,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}