Outreach - Magnificent Women and their Flying Machines
The Magnificent Women and Their Flying Machines outreach activity is a fun and educational activity designed to inspire girls into engineering through learning about the work of our Magnificent Women of the past. It is based on the work that women did building aircraft wings during the First World War, and the girls replicate this wing building in teams using Stixx machines. They then learn more about women in engineering through a historical classroom based activity where they choose a woman to research, and produce a resource which explains her life and work. The girls then hear from a current day woman engineer, and learn more about how they too can pursue a career in engineering.
The activity was first launched in April 2014, funded jointly by the Women's Engineering Society and an Ingenious Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering. It received an overwhelming response from schools and students alike. Since 2014, the project has been delivered to numerous school-based events, including schools in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales and a number of STEM fairs including the Big Bang, Royal International Air Tattoo, the Association of Science Education Conference and Exhibition, RAF Cosford, Big Bang Near Me exhibitions, and the STEMtech conference in London. Altogether, approximately 20,000 students, teachers and members of the public have had access to this activity. In 2015 and 2016 the activity was supported by Northrop Grumman. For 2016 we have received additional funding from the Royal Aeronautical Society Centennial Grant.
The activity is no longer being delivered.
The activity was first launched in April 2014, funded jointly by the Women's Engineering Society and an Ingenious Grant from the Royal Academy of Engineering. It received an overwhelming response from schools and students alike. Since 2014, the project has been delivered to numerous school-based events, including schools in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales and a number of STEM fairs including the Big Bang, Royal International Air Tattoo, the Association of Science Education Conference and Exhibition, RAF Cosford, Big Bang Near Me exhibitions, and the STEMtech conference in London. Altogether, approximately 20,000 students, teachers and members of the public have had access to this activity. In 2015 and 2016 the activity was supported by Northrop Grumman. For 2016 we have received additional funding from the Royal Aeronautical Society Centennial Grant.
The activity is no longer being delivered.
