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Jan 13
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Selvi Nachiyar and Chantelle Ioannou, data developers

Selvi Nachiyar and Chantelle Ioannou talk about how an early love of fixing things led to fulfilling roles at software firm Headforwards.

Dec 2, 2020
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Ellen O'Rourke, tech marketer and entrepreneur

Ellen talks about the importance of storytelling in technology marketing - and how she launched a successful magazine aged just 19.

Nov 25, 2020
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Nancy Ashburn, head of engineering

Nancy Ashburn, head of design and engineering at Watson-Marlow, tells us why engineering is such an exciting area to work in.

Nov 18, 2020
5 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Dr Claire Davies, astrophysicist

Dr Claire Davies of Exeter University explains how she became an astrophysicist - and why STEM needs female and LGBTQ+ role models.

Oct 13, 2020
6 min

Meet the TEC women who inspire the TECgirls team

TECgirls founders, contributors and volunteers tell us about a woman in tech, engineering or digital creativity who they find inspirational.

Oct 13, 2020
3 min

Spotlight on TEC Women: Ada Lovelace, computer programmer

What do you do if your dad is a famous bad boy poet and your mum is a strict mathematician? You invent coding, of course! Meet Ada Lovelace.

Sep 16, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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.

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