1. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
STEM
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

2. Skills acquired from studying STEM
Creativity
Ability to work collaboratively
Disciplined thought process
Problem solving skills

3. Women in STEM: Improving trend but still not enough.
The overall proportion of girls doing STEM subjects
drops off at ‘A‘ level, with lower numbers of females
compared to males being entered for all STEM
subjects, except Biology.
Males dominated undergraduate degrees achieved in
Engineering & Technology (86%), Computer Science (83%) and Architecture, Building & Planning (70%) in 2014.
The number of females obtaining all Engineering
and Technology degrees (8,755) has increased by
5% since The number of males has increased
by only 1% in the same period.
Source: ‘

4. The Manhattan project, Trinity Test

5. The power of E=mc2
The speed of light squared is equal to 90,000,000,000,000,000.
The test you saw in the video turned less than 1g of mass into pure energy!

6. The Manhattan project Scientific project to create the atomic bomb.
130,000 people
$26,000,000,000 in today’s money.
About 20 female scientists including:
Isabella Karle….chemist in the field of crystallography
Anne McCusick….physicist and medical researcher.
Huge collaboration between different disciplines.

7. Manhattan project continued
Physicists: Oppenheimer, Feynmann, Fermi.
Mathematician: Von Neumann
Together with many other Physicists and mathematicians, working alongside chemists, engineers and medical scientists.

8. CERN in 3 minutes

9. CERN Explores particles present at the beginning of the Universe.
Allows us to look back in time to very close to the big bang.
Notable achievement: production of the Higgs Boson, the particle responsible for giving other particles mass.

10. Cern statistics Has spent roughly $13,250,000,000 to date.
13,000 on site including 2,250 employees.
About 1/5th of scientists are women (a lot better than the 20 on the Manhattan project but still room for improvement…)
Mixture of Physicists, Engineers, Mathematicians and some Chemists and other disciplines.

12. Why STEM: transferable skills
Looking at both Manhattan Project and Cern
Collaboration
Creativity
Problem solving
These skills can be used in many areas of life and are in great demand by employers.

13. STEM: transferable skills
Example: ‘Banks everywhere are abandoning their pursuit of finance graduates in favour of STEM students. At Goldman Sachs, 37% of last year’s hires were STEM majors. All banks are chasing the same pool of technology students.’
--Efinancialcareers.com

14. Personal stories
‘The skills and discipline that I learned doing 4 STEM A levels followed by a Physics degree allowed me to become a managing director of a major investment bank and then, latterly, a teacher
I am very grateful to the STEM education that I received.’

15. Personal stories (continued)
Jennifer
Business Analyst in Accenture Digital (Media & Entertainment)
MSci, Chemistry
University College London
“My Chemistry MSci developed my ability to analyse results, conduct research and write reports. Not to mention the value of the analytical, numerical and Excel skills that are now ingrained in me!”
Caroline
Aerospace and Defence Management Consultant
MEng, Aerospace Engineering
University of Liverpool
"Three years of studying engineering had taught me how to learn new concepts and find solutions under pressure."

16. STEM at Francis Holland
STEM club….starting in next few weeks.
Guest speaker programme.
STEM communication prize sponsored by a major corporate.
Other initiatives to be announced throughout the year.