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    Spotlight on TEC Women: Kate Dibble, Business Development Engineer
    • Aug 2, 2021
    • 6 min

    Spotlight on TEC Women: Kate Dibble, Business Development Engineer

    Clean tech engineer Kate Dibble of Newquay-based Bennamann Ltd tells us why renewable energy is such an exciting area to work in.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Selvi Nachiyar and Chantelle Ioannou, data developers
    • Jan 13, 2021
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Ellen O'Rourke, tech marketer and entrepreneur
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Nancy Ashburn, head of engineering
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Dr Claire Davies, astrophysicist
    • 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.
    Meet the TEC women who inspire the TECgirls team
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Ada Lovelace, computer programmer
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Jen Bristow, game animator
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Ruth Ross-Macdonald, head of product
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Feyaza Khan, tech podcaster
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Amy Shakespeare, innovation manager
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Amran Abdiqadir Mohamed, student researcher
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Sarah Trethowan, tech investor
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Natasha Price, film producer
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Julia Le Gallo, game producer
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Josephine Cowley, tech intern
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Katy Eddy, tech copywriter
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Olivia Smedley, space scientist
    • 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.
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Emily Whetter, software architect
    • 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 –...
    Spotlight on TEC Women: Jane Orme, software engineer
    • 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...
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