On Thursday, the 23rd of March, girls at Capital City Academy celebrated the progress of girls in STEM professions and to watch a documentary of girls around the UK interested in pursuing careers in STEM.
 
 Anne Marie Imafidon, the Youngest person to graduate from the University of Oxford and the first female scientist to be honoured by the Queen was in attendance inspiring the girls and establishing a STEMillions Club at the school.
 

On the 13th of March, National Grid visited to guide and mentor Year 10 and 11 girls into STEM careers. This presentation was different from the previous two as the students were shown and were able to ask questions on how to work with their current grades in mathematics and science towards the many options available in technology particularly at National Grid. The international development leader and head of IT security was attendance and have invited the girls to a trip to the IT Security Centre of National Grid at Warwick.

Celeste, 13, attends City Academy and attended one of our ‘STEM in a Day’ school trips at EY in 2016. She wrote a piece about her experience, including a poem!
We entered the shining tall building, and as we entered, we saw everything so organised and clean,
looking as professional as the visit was itself.
The staff looked lovely and were too.
We had to create our own apps to replace school,
to get a taste of what they do at EY.
National Grid’s ngLabs were also there on the day and told us about wonderful things they work on –
including virtual reality (VR).
I got to use a VR headset and loved it so much that when I took it off,
I saw that everyone else was already doing other things.

Lost in Virtual Reality at EYThe view was amazing when we ate lunch,
and everyone who came on the trip is very lucky to have met such wonderful people and have been to an amazing and astonishing place.
The winners for the app won these lovely headphones,
and we got some goody bags which I think is great,
to show others how lucky I was to visit the EY.
I hope them the best of luck with their life-changing hard work. 
EY, a building full of technology, 
With secrets that you will never see, 
We build our apps and discovered a lot, 
And the view was amazing and a really great spot, 
For the perfect work place for the nice staff, 
And with the VR, we had a great laugh, 
I hope the best for the glistering place, 
To have the world’s best discovered case. 

Link on Stemette's website: 
http://stemettes.org/blog/2016/11/17/celeste-a-lovely-school-trip-to-ey/
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The girls designed apps, were taken on a tour of the Ernst & Young global consultancy headquarters, met and were mentored by female Lead partners at the consulting group, experienced the use of Virtual Reality in real life problem solving, were introduced to career opportunities for women in technology and designed apps solving real life problem tasks managed by the schools & education department at Ernst and Young.

The Year 9 girls met, were mentored and inspired by young women who now work at Accenture and were informed of their challenges and experience making the choice in Year 9 which brought them to the STEM careers they work in. The girls were inspired and all made commitments to put more effort in their studies in Mathematics and Science. The Year 9's developed apps and prizes were won by two of our students for best designed Apps and presentation of their concept and ideas.