We are delighted to announce the results of the Ada Scotland Inspiring Teacher Award 2024! The nominees were:
Adrianne Murphy – Glasgow Gaelic School @GlasgowCC
Aarti Kaushal – @stmacharacademy
Carrie Lumsden – @clydebankhigh
Fionnadh Carroll – @mywowscotland (Highlands)
Jasmine Chand – @GlencairnpsN
Lauren Stalker – St Thomas of Aquin’s RC High School @Edinburgh_CC
Marie Claire Mitchell – @Mearns_Primary
Tracey Mutter – @FalkirkHigh
And the WINNER is...
Carrie Lumsden of @clydebankhigh!!
Congratulations, Mrs Lumsden, and thank you for all the support you provide to girls who want to study #ComputingScience!
After a nail biting tie breaker we are delighted to announce the 2024 Cyber Quest - congrats🏆
@CompSciScot @stacshq
🎉 ENUSEC & @AdaScot announce CyberQuest’24 winners after a close tiebreaker! 🎉
🥇 HAHAHAlol (The Glasgow Academy)
🥈 Yapper Rex (The Glasgow Academy)
🥉 Right Side of the Room (Albyn School)
Best University Team: Uncol is Col (from @UniStrathclyde)
Massive congratulations 🥳
There were many innovative "head wear" designs in the strawbees workshop at the festival last week - but this one was definitely worn with the most pride by one of the amazing helpers on the day 🍓🐝💜
@DouglasEwartHS @dgcouncil @EducationScot
Innovation in Action!
At the Ada Scotland workshop, P5 students explored #Strawbees, creating geometric shapes and imaginative hats—even an umbrella hat for Scotland’s weather! ☔️
#AdaScotlandFestival #STEMLearning #STEAM
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🔥The competition at ENUSEC x @AdaScot Festival CyberQuest 2024 is heating up!🔥
It’s neck and neck with teams now battling in a sudden-death tie-breaker.
Stay tuned for the thrilling final results once they're in! 🏆💻
#Adascot #CyberQuest2024 #CTF #CyberSecurity
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It has been a very busy week for our STEM and skills development colleagues this week! The @DYWLED 'Step into STEM' event at @SouthLanarkshireColl. And an inspirational day @adascot where robotics in dairy farming was the topic of the day for Donna and Jenny from @SmartSTEMs .
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We'll have a full report up on the Ada Scotland Festival @adascot LinkedIn page soon, but I just wanted to say a personal thank you to everyone who made today's event in Dumfries & Galloway such as success!
Another great event coming up this afternoon from the teams at @EquateScotland and @EdNapierSCEBE:
⚡️lightening talks
🧑🤝🧑discussion
🏫For staff, students, change makers from any higher education organisation
Lookinging forward to our @adascot event with @EquateScotland this afternoon: Building networks for inclusion ada.scot/scebe-edinburgh-nap… Email me if registration closes and you want to come along
Thank you so much for joining the fun - a brilliant event organised by the team at Barclays with support from @GSofA @CaledonianNews @KOStudioGames & Ludus Pax Studios
@flackboy
Happy Ada Lovelace Day! P7 dressCoders @dressCodeHQ took part in a fantastic games design & development day @BarclaysUK Eagle Labs in Glasgow as part of the 2nd week of the Ada Scotland Festival @adascot We had fun designing games assets, testing & playing games @DigiSchoolsERC
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🎉 Happy Ada Lovelace Day! 👩🏻💻 Did you know Ada Lovelace is considered to be the first computer programmer?
Today, we celebrate her vision for technology and the contributions of women in STEM! Join our workshop this Thursday with @adascot to kickstart your web development journey: tinyurl.com/yc72ra6d
#AdaLovelaceDay #diversityintech
Happy #AdaLovelace Day..
@EquateScotland presents: Returning to Work? Know Your Rights!
11am 8 Oct online
@EdNapierSCEBE & Equate Scotland present: Building networks for inclusion
3pm 9 Oct at Napier Uni
ada.scot
#gender #equality #STEM #computing
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Celebrating #AdaLovelaceDay with our inspiring Women In Computer Science seminar series
Delighted to have @OanaMAndrei from @GlasgowCS share her research in algorithmic thinking.
Thank you @hatii_matt for connecting us to an inspirational academic & fantastic role model
Let me eat cake... but also play games!
Check out the brilliant Games Jam in Motion delivered by @DJCAD & @AbertayGameLab
9&10 Oct - Games design free drop in
10 Oct (pm) - Play part at Cake or Dice
bit.ly/3YdJSzi
Two brilliant events from @EquateScotland:
➡️Tues 7 Oct Returning to Work? Know Your Rights! (online)
➡️Wed 8 Oct with @EdNapierSCEBE Building networks for inclusion (in-person)
➡️ada.scot
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Join the #digilearnscot online events this week:
Data Dive Workshop with @codedivision_uk for Secondary Teachers
X2 early level Cyber Resilience Internet Safety webinars
X3 live lessons for upper primary & secondary learners
@data_schools @adascot
blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/gl…
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What a privilege to be part of @adascot festival. This week we have reached over 750 students with our live lessons in collaboration with @rafcharitable and @AccentureUK.
Check out our upcoming lives here techshecan.org/live-assembli…
#RAFCT #WeAreAda
There is still time to take part:
@enusec CyberQuest: Capture the Flag 2024 Cybersecurity competition 1-11 Oct
Open to schools, Colleges, Unis
🏆 prizes for the winners
ctf.enusec.org
#competition #CyberSecurity #CyberSec
Still time to join the #CyberSecurity competition led by the fab folk at @enusec:
CAPTURE THE FLAG
prizes for the winners....
@CompSciScot @stacshq
See the adascot page here: ada.scot/enusec-cyberquest-c…
also CC: @EdinburghNapier @EdNapierSCEBE @ScullionToni @SHS_CompSci @dressCodeHQ @DigiLearnScot @CompSciScot <3
2 new resources from our friends at Barclays:
📘tech blogs with insights into key languages bit.ly/3Bwjrfo
🧑🤝🧑Industry Buddy Program for women & non-binary college & Uni all disciplines
bit.ly/4dv6Vdq
#careers #WomenInTech #computing
