{"id":76658,"date":"2020-05-26T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-05-26T09:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=76658"},"modified":"2020-05-26T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2020-05-26T09:37:37","slug":"encourage-more-girls-into-stem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/encourage-more-girls-into-stem\/76658\/","title":{"rendered":"Girlguiding festival goes virtual to encourage more girls into STEM"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>As part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amey.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amey<\/a>\u2019s partnership with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.girlguiding.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Girlguiding UK<\/a>, Amey is supporting the first-ever Adventures at Home Festival this Saturday 23 May, a programme of STEM activities for girls<\/h2>\n<p>The festival promises an exciting programme of STEM activities for girls of all ages and their families to enjoy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-industry-forecast-2\/74398\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">during this challenging period<\/a> where, due to Covid-19, many Girlguiding plans have been cancelled or postponed.<\/p>\n<p>Amey\u2019s partnership with Girlguiding is a cornerstone of our diversity strategy and it plays an important part in inspiring the next generation of female engineers into our sector and our business.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Amey and Girlguiding collaborated to create the UK\u2019s first-ever Engineering Badge, with a focus on rail, road, innovation, safety, diversity and inclusion. In its first year, the badge received over 120,000 requests nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Amey will be supporting the event with an interactive class on how to make a bird feeder from recycled materials.<\/p>\n<p>The Girlguiding UK Adventures at Home Festival already has over 10,000 people registered to attend and is open for everyone to enjoy via the Girlguiding UK website and YouTube channel.<\/p>\n<h3>The programme for the day includes:<\/h3>\n<p>A host of special celebrity guests and speakers, sports activities, arts and crafts, and story-telling, as well as classes and activities aimed at challenging girls to try something new.<\/p>\n<p>It is hoped that events like this will encourage more girls to pursue STEM subjects at school and careers in science and technical fields in later life.<\/p>\n<h3>Gender diversity<\/h3>\n<p>Amey has long championed the issue of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/gender-balanca-on-their-agenda\/74176\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gender diversity<\/a> in the infrastructure and engineering sector, with a variety of programmes and campaigns aimed at breaking down stereotypes at school age and supporting women in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking ahead of the event, Girlguiding UK\u2019s chief guide, Amanda Medler, said: \u201cThis virtual festival is our way of saying thank you to all young people and their families for the part they are playing during these challenging times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have a fantastic line-up for the day with something for all ages and hope it will help lift spirits this bank holiday weekend and give children and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/family-friendly-policies\/72947\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">young people with their families<\/a> a chance to join in the adventure with us, from the safety of their own homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Hale, Amey\u2019s business manager and representative at the festival, added: \u201cWe are extremely excited to be involved in Girlguiding\u2019s first-ever virtual festival to help engage and develop the skills of young girls.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur partnership with Girlguiding is all about raising awareness of STEM education for young girls, both locally and nationally to inspire more girls to be part of our future talent pipelines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Recent figures show that just 9% of engineers in the UK are women and we hope events like this will change perceptions surrounding engineering careers and create a more gender equal sector in future.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of Amey\u2019s partnership with Girlguiding UK, Amey is supporting the first-ever Adventures at Home Festival this Saturday 23 May, a programme of STEM activities for girls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[54592,628,3649,882,636,994,993,963],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-76658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-coronavirus","8":"tag-diversity","9":"tag-education","10":"tag-employment","11":"tag-engineering","12":"tag-equality","13":"tag-gender-pay-gap","14":"tag-stem"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Girlguiding festival goes virtual to encourage more girls into STEM<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Amey is supporting the first-ever Adventures at Home Festival this Saturday 23 May, a programme of STEM activities for girls\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/encourage-more-girls-into-stem\/76658\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Girlguiding festival goes virtual to encourage more girls into STEM\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Amey is supporting the first-ever Adventures at Home Festival this Saturday 23 May, a programme of STEM activities for girls\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/encourage-more-girls-into-stem\/76658\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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