617-536-5400 ask@bpl.org Ada Lovelace Day celebrates women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM). If you would like to sponsor Ada Lovelace Day, please Taking place a month after Ada Lovelace Day on Tuesday 10 November, the Finding Ada Virtual STEM Conference will be a 29 hour extravaganza of talks, workshops, Q&As and more, starting at 9am in Wellington, New Zealand, and continuing through until 5pm in Seattle, USA. Despite persistent racism and sexism, Raye Montague became an engineer in the US Navy, creating the first computer generated ship design.Shares the story of the pioneering African American mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who helped calculate America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon.
Ada Lovelace Day Online 2020 Ada Lovelace Day, Tuesday 13 October, is going back to its roots with a day of blogging, Twittering and Facebooking, just like we did in 2009. Lovelace was born in 1815 in England to Lord and Lady Byron. At our London hub we learned how to edit Wikipedia (it’s actually surprisingly simple; take a look at our handy how-to guide below), contributing eight brand new biographies and improving dozens of existing pages. The explanation is rather mundane: the date is arbitrary, chosen in an attempt to make the day maximally convenient for the most number of people. To find out more, please see We’ll be profiling women working in STEM around the world and those women who work so hard campaigning for gender equality in industry, academia and the community.We want you to join in by highlighting our hidden advocates, the teachers, lecturers and professors, the researchers and technicians, the women you work with, who go above and beyond to encourage and support girls and women in STEM. As a sponsor-funded event, we have been badly affected by Brexit as companies cut their marketing and CSR budgets and delay spending decisions. Check out some great books on Ada Lovelace, coding, and women in STEM to celebrate Ada Lovelace Day! Read our People often ask why Ada Lovelace Day is the day that it is. Founded in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson, it is now held every year on the second Tuesday of October. Lovelace was born in 1815 in England to Lord and Lady Byron.
We can do more for our students with your sponsorship or donations. More importantly, Lovelace was the first person to foresee the creative potential of the Engine. In this historical mystery, a young Ada Lovelace teams up with a young Mary Shelley to solve mysteries in London. Ada Lovelace Day is an important day not only to recognise the brilliance of Ada herself, but also the achievements of all women in STEM; from the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova), to the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (Marie Curie), to the girl that just wrote her first line of code.We kicked off with our Women in STEM Speed Mentoring Session at our Sixth Form campus in Tottenham Hale. In aid of Ada Lovelace Day edit-a-thon hubs across the world, from New York, to New Zealand, to Manchester and London, participated in increasing the representation of women in STEM on Wikipedia. Celebrate the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace with books about women in science, mathematics, and coding.Daughter of a poet and a mathematician, Ada Lovelace used her mathematical genius and poetic imagination to create the first computer code. We welcome your respectful and on-topic comments and questions in this limited public forum. So, you know, way before computers. In the 1840s, Charles Babbage created a design for an Analytical Engine that could do complex math. Ada Lovelace Day is an important day not only to recognise the brilliance of Ada herself, but also the achievements of all women in STEM; from the first woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova), to the first woman to win a Nobel Prize (Marie Curie), to the girl that just wrote her first line of code.