News 2012

WES supports Mission Discovery Space School July 2012 Salford University
Saturday 28th January 2012

How do we inspire girls and young women to take up engineering?  WES President Milada Williams has been looking to involve WES in a week long summer school programme that engages girls and young women in working for a week with female engineers, including astronaut Megan McArthur and astronaut trainer Michelle Ham.  During the summer school week the young women will work in teams to come up with ideas and designs for an experiment that will be carried out in space.  The teams will present their ideas to a panel of women engineers and compete to have their idea selected to be built and carried out on the International Space Station.

Miliada has been working with the International Space School Educational Trust (ISSET) to adapt the ‘Mission Discovery’ to focus on inspiring girls and young women to follow careers and study in engineering, please see www.isset.org for details.  She and ISSET are exploring with WES’s Professor Haifa Takruri MBE the possibility of holding the programme at the School of Computing, Science and Engineering, University of Salford in July.  The programme would be enhanced by the participation of a range of female engineers as presenters or mentors during the week. 

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If you think that you may be interested please contact Milada Williams at president@wes.org.uk.