Maths4Girls Event – online webinar

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 Hy5kpqdbabzbxmdopuffgb for 50 students at Dixons Fazakerley Academy aged Age 11 - 18.

Event description

Speakers Profile:
Sophie Carr - Mathematician at Bays Consulting Limited. She always loved puzzles, Lego and aeroplanes. She studied aeronautical engineering at university and then a masters in fluid mechanics. Then, she started to work at the Defence Science and Technology Laboratories where she worked on a range of engineering and technical projects, and also completed a part time Phd in Bayesian Networks. In 2009 she took the opportunity to set up her own business, Bays Consulting which has steadily grown over the last few years and now employees people - an opportunity to use ever more maths!

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, but has been designed for students aged between 11 and 14. 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.