Tell us about yourself, and your journey into Tech/STEM. I’m from Kazakhstan. I came to New Zealand to study Biomedical Sciences, with the view that being a Doctor and being in science was the only way to contribute back to the world – I guess when you’re younger you have a very different perspective of …
Tell us about yourself, and your journey into Tech/STEM. It all started when I was in high school – I went to Saint Mary’s College in Wellington – and it was year 12 chemistry. Before the technology side of my journey came in, I was really interested in chemistry. There was a big competition in …
Community Tech Champions – Finalist She Sharp runs events, workshops, and networking opportunities responding to the enduring gender imbalance across STEM industries. Strong female role models from industry educate and empower the next generation of innovators and leaders. In the seven years since its conception, She Sharp has reached an estimated 4000 people at the …
SMALL ORGANISATION EXCELLENCE AWARD Just three per cent of 15-year-old girls attending New Zealand high schools consider technology a possible career option. And despite the fact the ICT sector is the third largest and fastest-growing sector in New Zealand, there’s a significant gender gap with women filling less than a quarter of these roles in …
Tell us about yourself, and your journey into Tech/STEM. My background is in arts – I was always an arts kid growing up, I did music and theatre and my favourite subject was English. But I was also a very destructive kid – I loved to take things apart, namely the VCRs, remotes and disposable …
Tell us about yourself, and your journey into Tech/STEM. It really started when I was 15 or 16 – I really loved the game ‘The Sims’. My sisters and I were pretty obsessed with it. We would play it everyday – many fights were had! We figured out all the hacks one could use to …
Tell us about yourself, and your journey into Tech/STEM. For me, tech hasn’t been a straightforward journey, it has been a series of zig-zags, ups and downs, diagonals, like a jungle gym. When I was younger, I loved computers. I’ve been obsessed with computers since I was 6, which was the first time that I …
Tell us about yourself, and your journey into Tech/STEM. I started studying electrical engineering back in India, and as part of the engineering program you have to do the first year with all disciplines of engineering, and so I had to take a couple of courses in computer engineering as well. As part of that, …
Tell us about yourself, and your journey into tech/STEM. So I started getting into STEM and tech when I was actually back in high school in the United States. I picked the science subjects at high school level, and joined a lot of tech things, like the robotics club, and I started to see engineering …
Tech Outreach and Engagement Coordinator Xero Tell us about yourself, and your journey into tech/STEM. So, without giving you my whole life story, I moved from England because I met a boy (what better reason to move country right?) and realised that in Napier there weren’t many what I’d call “career jobs,” other than working …
