International Ada Lovelace Day 2016 - Session 1 (10am to 1pm)

• Event Description
  Come join the international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths for Ada Lovelace Day 2016.
  
  
  Starting 10am hear a series of short presetnations about exciting University of Edinburgh project's and Women in STEM initiatives:
  • Welcome and intro about Ada Lovelace & Mary Somerville
  • The mentoring programme at Edinburgh University
  • The maths of Ada Lovelace.
  • The Lego Lovelace project.

  Following on from the talks, you are invited to get hands on technology and build your digital skills:

  • Compete in Metadata games 
  • Creating a Lego calculator
  • Play with BBC's Microbit
  • Have Fun with Sonic Pi

  Stay until 1pm or drop in for just for a while, but either way don't miss out the #ALD16EdUni fun.

• Contact Ewan McAndrew (Email: ewan.mcandrew@ed.ac.uk)
• Restrictions on Attendance: Participants can attend only once
• Catering: Refreshments