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She Speaks Business: a Cambridge Tech Week fringe event 11 May

She Speaks Science is co-hosting a Cambridge Tech Week fringe event on 11 May to celebrate the success and innovation of pioneering tech entrepreneurs.

Join us for this dynamic and thought-provoking panel discussion to explore the opportunities, challenges, and aspirations that mark their entrepreneurial journeys.

Register here.

Hosted by our founder and Executive Director Dr Ghina M. Halabi, the panel will discuss leadership shifts, founder success rubric, and navigating uncertainty in the ever-evolving tech landscape.

Panellists:

1. Arta Selmani, Co-Founder and CEO of Mimicrete Ltd, the biomimetic self-healing concrete company.

2. Jana Voigt, Co-Founder and CEO of Infersens, a leading developer of edge machine learning technology.

3. Jing Zhang, Cofounder and Strategy Director at Aqdot Limited.

4. Emmi Nicholl, Managing Director of the Cambridge Angel Group.

This even is organised by Cambridge Future Tech, She Speaks Science, and Mills & Reeve LLP.

Cambridge Future Tech Ltd is a deep tech venture builder based in Cambridge and operating across the UK.

Mills & Reeve is a leading law firm with experienced teams focused on the tech, investment and life sciences communities.

Don’t miss out! We’d love to see you.

Register here.

 

PENTA impact report: The results are in!

After a hiatus, we’re back with the results of our mentorship programme PENTA and they look smashing!

You can read the impact report here.

The impact report shows the success and remarkable impact PENTA had on the career advancement and confidence of participating women and girls.

Check it out to learn more about our findings, and how PENTA is paving the way for women to become leaders in their field and shaping the future of Women in STEM.

A shout out to all our mentors and mentees who made PENTA the success it turned out to be!

Special thanks to Dr Anita K., Peju Adebajo, Dr Belinda Wilkes, Prof Thais Russomano, MD, MSc, PhD and Prof Fatima Abu Salem. And of course our dynamo and programme manager Lynn Wahab.

PENTA 2.0 is in its planning phase. News will be shared in due course. Stay tuned!

PENTA, our new mentorship programme was launched on 11 Feb, International Day of Women and Girls in Science!

At She Speaks Science we believe in the power of community and that whoever you are, someone is looking up to you.

So we launched PENTA, our 5-month mentorship programme with a twist: it’s a two-way model so as a member you will be both a mentor and a mentee. This enables inspiration, knowledge and insight to cascade from our executive level mentors all the way down to school student mentees.

33 women and girls who are professionals in industry and academia, and university and school students started on PENTA’s journey of motivation, creation and inspiration on 11 Feb.

They come from 23 different countries and were selected from 5 regions (Africa, Latin & North America, Middle East, Europe, Asia) through a very competitive process. To them PENTA is vehicle for empowerment and a chance to meet other females in STEM, learn from their mentor’s experiences, and offer their guidance and support to their mentees.

5 regions. 5 career stages. 5 months. 33 empowered women and girls!

Would you like to apply to our next PENTA cohort? Follow us on social media and subscribe to our newsletter so that you know as soon as applications open!
 

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October News: She Speaks Science gets featured in Nature Middle East on “Leading women scientists to the global stage”

We have been featured this week in Nature Middle East as one of the global initiatives supporting women in STEM.

The feature by Prof Rana Dajani highlights grassroots initiatives led by Arab women like our founder Dr Ghina M. Halabi, Prof Hala Zreiqat and Prof Amal Amin to address the challenges facing women in science globally including access to role models, creating support networks, and influencing change at policy level.

We celebrate scientists as figures not only to look up to but also to identify with. That’s how we encourage fresh perceptions about science and success and help young people develop a positive self-identity.

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September News: She Speaks Science gets featured by the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs in a story by our Founder and Executive Director Ghina M. Halabi: “I was the first to get a PhD in astrophysics from a Lebanese university. Today, I want to make sure that I’m not the last”

We are delighted to be featured by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs as a Space for Women spotlight project.

Our Founder and Executive Director Dr Ghina M. Halabi, a UNOOSA STEM mentor helping aspiring females reach for the stars, says in this feature article

I was the first to get a PhD in astrophysics from a Lebanese university. Today, I want to make sure that I’m not the last.

To learn more about Ghina’s journey, how we challenge the narrative of who does STEM and spark young people’s enthusiasm for STEM with storytelling you can check out the full feature below.

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Stories are empowering and effective, not only to engage and inform but also to develop a positive sense of identity.

August News: She Speaks Science partners with Arab Science Week to bring STEM and space science to the Arab world! A packed programme of free online events from 15-23 August 2020

As our Arabic-speaking audience grows, we’re thrilled to be partnering with Arab Science Week أسبوع العلوم العربي to bring STEM and space science to the Arab world!

Arab Science Week is the largest virtual celebration of Science and Technology in the Middle East and North Africa. It will be running from 15th to 23rd Aug.

Our Founder and Executive Director Dr Ghina M. Halabi will be a speaker and panelist on the 22nd of August 2020 to discuss space, the importance of STEM education in the Arab region, and the role of Women in STEM.

All events are online and registration is free.

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Register for Ghina’s talk “Life of Stars and Planets”


Register for the panel “Women Initiatives in STEM”