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Sep 16
4 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Jen Bristow, game animator

We talk to Jen about how her love of art led to a degree in digital animation – and a job as a 3D game animator at Moonshine Studios.

Sep 10
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Ruth Ross-Macdonald, head of product

Ruth explains what it means to be Head of Product for a software company, and why studying design makes you ideally placed to become one.

Aug 20
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Feyaza Khan, tech podcaster

Co-host of the Tribe Tech podcast, Feyaza tells us how she became a professional radio journalist - and how you can, too.

Aug 12
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Amy Shakespeare, innovation manager

Amy explains how her work with the Cornwall Museums Partnership is bringing immersive technologies into some of our most rural museums.

Aug 10
4 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Amran Abdiqadir Mohamed, student researcher

Amran is helping us produce the first TECgirls Insights Report. We talk to her about why she’s excited to be doing research with TECgirls.

Aug 5
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Sarah Trethowan, tech investor

Angel investor Sarah Trethowan explains how her investment in Penryn-based startup Codices has helped the company to grow.

Jul 22
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Natasha Price, film producer

Tash Price tells us how she got started as a film-maker, how she got her film shown on TV, and why it's an exciting time for women in film.

Jul 15
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Julia Le Gallo, game producer

We talk to Julia Le Gallo about how she turned her passion for games into a real game of her own.

Jul 8
4 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Josephine Cowley, tech intern

Gap year student Josephine Cowley tells us what she's learned about working in TEC from a seven-month internship at micro:bit.

Jul 1
4 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Katy Eddy, tech copywriter

We talk to Katy Eddy of Radix Communications about her job as a technology copywriter – and why the tech industry needs writers too.

Jun 24
4 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Olivia Smedley, space scientist

Olivia Smedley, space scientist at Goonhilly, talks to TECgirls about her job, and why it’s important to follow your passion.

Jun 17
4 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Emily Whetter, software architect

Hear the word ‘architect’ and we tend to imagine someone who designs buildings. But there are architects in the world of software, too – ...

Jun 10
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Jane Orme, software engineer

Lots of girls are enjoying learning to code at school, with many also joining after-school coding clubs. The skills they’re learning toda...

Jun 3
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Johanne Bergill and Georgia Higgins, game designers

Two co-founders of Penryn-based Polargryph tell us what it's like to run your own games studio, and how they got into the games industry.

May 27
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Talini Pinto Jayawardena, space science technologist

These are exciting times for the UK space industry, with the rebirth of space exploration and a huge increase in the use of satellites to...

May 20
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Paula Kaminska, user experience strategist

User experience (UX) design is a phrase you hear a lot in the world of software, but what does it mean, and what sort of background do yo...

May 7
3 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Georgie Harrison, tech entrepreneur

Georgie is a co-founder of Roamey, an online platform and app for discovering new experiences. She tells us how a degree in Fine Art led ...

Apr 16
4 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Louise Hutton-Bailey, medical device engineer

Louise Hutton-Bailey tells us why healthcare needs engineers, how she became one, and how she’s helping to tackle coronavirus from Cornwall

Apr 8
4 min

Spotlight on TEC women: Lucy Crane, senior geologist

In the first of our series about the women driving technology, engineering and digital creativity in Cornwall, we talk to Lucy Crane. Luc...

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