{"id":881,"date":"2019-02-03T11:40:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T11:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?p=881"},"modified":"2019-02-03T11:40:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-03T11:40:09","slug":"female-engineers-come-together-for-outreach-surgery-at-curiosity-connections-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/female-engineers-come-together-for-outreach-surgery-at-curiosity-connections-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Female engineers come together for outreach surgery at Curiosity Connections 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/curiositybristol.net\">Curiosity Connections<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/tag\/women-like-me\/\">Women Like Me<\/a> is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raeng.org.uk\/\">Royal Academy of Engineering<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raeng.org.uk\/grants-and-prizes\/ingenious-grant\">Ingenious<\/a> funded project. Curiosity Connections is a Bristol-based network for primary Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) teachers and science communicators, while Women Like Me pairs senior engineers with junior engineers for mentoring, with the junior engineers undertaking outreach activities with children and young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-887\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS4-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS4-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/curiositybristol.net\/conference-2019\/\">Curiosity Connections Conference 2019<\/a> took place at UWE Bristol on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> February &#8211; more to follow about that! As well as the three fantastic workshop rotations on offer, we also provided an outreach surgery for our female engineers to come along, try out some outreach activities, talk through any thoughts they have about outreach and catch up with each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-890\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS7.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS7-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\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=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS5-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"888\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=888\" class=\"wp-image-888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS5-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS5-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS5-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS5-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"885\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=885\" class=\"wp-image-885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS2-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS2-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS11-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"902\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=902\" class=\"wp-image-902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS11-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS11-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"797\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/YoE-paper-1-797x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"904\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=904\" class=\"wp-image-904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/YoE-paper-1-797x1024.jpg 797w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/YoE-paper-1-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/YoE-paper-1-768x987.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/YoE-paper-1-1200x1542.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/YoE-paper-1.jpg 1664w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower1-1-762x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"905\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=905\" class=\"wp-image-905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower1-1-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower1-1-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower1-1-768x1032.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower1-1-1200x1612.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower1-1.jpg 1673w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Run by <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/Laura5Hobbs\">Dr Laura Hobbs<\/a>, research fellow in science communication at UWE Bristol and coordinator of Women Like Me, and <a href=\"https:\/\/people.uwe.ac.uk\/Person\/DebbieLewis\">Dr Debbie Lewis<\/a>, technical team leader for molecular biology at UWE and experienced outreach leader, the session saw our engineers trying to cut A5 pieces of paper so that they could step through them (a fantastic resource provided by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yearofengineering.gov.uk\/\">Year of Engineering<\/a>) and build towers out of spaghetti and marshmallows. We were also joined by our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisecampaign.org.uk\/\">WISE<\/a> Women Like Me partner Sarah Behenna, who was recently involved with the development of the new WISE resource <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wise-and-women-like-mes-sarah-behenna-on-the-my-skills-my-life-launch\/\">My Skills My Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"884\" class=\"wp-image-884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS1-1200x1599.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/OS1.jpg 1855w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?s=pavlina\">Pavlina Theodosiou<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brl.ac.uk\">Bristol Robotics Laboratory<\/a>) shows off her successfully engineered paper<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"788\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower2-1-788x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"906\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/?attachment_id=906\" class=\"wp-image-906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower2-1-788x1024.jpg 788w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower2-1-231x300.jpg 231w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower2-1-768x998.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower2-1-1200x1560.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/Rebecca-tower2-1.jpg 1691w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>Rebecca O&#8217;Hara (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.balfourbeatty.com\/\">Balfour Beatty<\/a>) builds a spaghetti-marshmallow tower<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/VNHM-YoE-credit-Dave-Marshall-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-883\" width=\"261\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/VNHM-YoE-credit-Dave-Marshall-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/VNHM-YoE-credit-Dave-Marshall-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/VNHM-YoE-credit-Dave-Marshall-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2019\/02\/VNHM-YoE-credit-Dave-Marshall.jpg 1161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 85vw, 261px\" \/><figcaption>Credit: David Marshall (University of Bristol\/Virtual Natural History Museum)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such was the concentration and enthusiasm for the tasks &#8211; and encouraging and supportive atmosphere &#8211; that we decided to extend our scheduled 50 minute session to more than two hours, only stopping for lunch. Our endeavours with technical paper-cutting also caught the attention of exhibitors at the conference expo; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vnhm.org\">Virtual Natural History Museum<\/a> stand soon became adorned with a perfectly-executed paper ring!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity Connections &#8211; Women Like Me is a Royal Academy of Engineering Ingenious funded project. Curiosity Connections is a Bristol-based network for primary Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) teachers and science communicators, while Women Like Me pairs senior engineers with junior engineers for mentoring, with the junior engineers undertaking outreach activities with children and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/female-engineers-come-together-for-outreach-surgery-at-curiosity-connections-2019\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Female engineers come together for outreach surgery at Curiosity Connections 2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":900,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,23,52,15,24,18,17,22,14],"tags":[46,26,133,131,28,132,38,32,25],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bristol-robotics-laboratory","category-curiosity-connections","category-engineering-our-future-people","category-events","category-outreach","category-schools","category-teaching","category-women-like-me","category-year-of-engineering","tag-bristol-robotics-laboratory","tag-curiosity-connections","tag-debbie-lewis","tag-diversity-in-stem","tag-laura-hobbs","tag-sarah-behenna","tag-wise","tag-women-in-stem","tag-women-like-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","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=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":907,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}