Maths4Girls Event – online webinar
Fri 24 Apr 2020 | 2:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
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Founders4schools
About the Business Leaders
These business leaders have been chosen because their companies are growing quickly.
About the teacher and students
The event was created by Anca Ionescu for 50 students at Dixons Fazakerley Academy aged Age 12 - 12.
Event description
Speakers Profile:
Nirmala Menon - QA engineer at Lloyd’s Banking. She is a Quality Engineer with the Lloyd’s Banking group. She works with the Digital Platform group responsible for the Banks’ Apps and Websites. After her post-graduation (Master in Computer Applications) she started her career as a software programmer with IBM in India followed by CarphoneWarehouse in the UK. When she moved to Milton Keynes, she took a few years off while her children were born and got back to work when they started going to school. She joined an electricity software company in Milton Keynes, called EDW, this time as a Testing/Quality Engineer. In 2018, she moved to London and she joined Lloyd’s Bank in her current role.
The event will be Moderated by Kathleen O'Neill, Engagement Manager Scotland at Founders4Schools. Kathleen spends her days connecting educators to business leaders to help inspire and prepare young people for the world of work.
Notes:
Maths4Girls events feature role models who work within finance, investment and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Maths) industries to talk about how they use Maths Skills in their every day working lives.
- These events help students learn about a range of attributes to boost employability, to develop enterprise opportunities and to prepare for the world of work.
- In addition to this, students will gain an in-depth understanding of why skills such as resilience, conflict resolution, communication and independence are important within the workplace.
Age Appropriacy: This type of event is appropriate for any student aged 5 through 24. Refer to our white paper pages 9 and 11 for more details. This white paper summarizes more than 100 externally validated research papers on career pathways for students.