Successful women from STEM industries inspire Banbury girls with talk at college

Over 160 girls from year 7, 8 and 9 from local secondary schools attended Tuesday's talks.

A group of successful women from the science, technology, engineering and mathematics industries inspired girls at local secondary schools not to limit themselves in their future careers.

On Tuesday February 28, over 160 girls from local secondary schools' years 7, 8, and 9 classes attended an afternoon of talks from women in the science and technology industry at Banbury and Bicester College.

The students were shown how software engineering and web development can be interesting, as well as being taught how to find work within the growing science, technology and engineering sectors.

Louise Towler, from website design agency IndigoTree, said: “It was fun talking with the girls and providing a background to what I love so much about what I do, website creation. Dion van Overdijk, the computing teacher at the college, hopes that organising events like this will help addressing the lack of female students in STEM subjects at college and other sixth forms.”