In September we hosted ‘Gamechangers for diversity in STEM’ – a two day hackathon bringing together 40 highly committed individuals from across the scientific community to tackle the problem of lack of diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
It was an energetic and inspiring two days culminating in the development of nine innovative projects offering practical and sustainable long term solutions.
This is a video of some of our participants and fantastic keynote speakers discussing their personal experiences and how the challenges can be overcome.
You can also find out more about what happened at the event by reading the report: https://bit.ly/2FmAUJQ and listening to the podcast: https://bit.ly/2JRDNR8. Some of our participants have also written blogs which you can read on the Gamechangers website: https://www.stemgamechangers.github.io.
About the Turing
The Alan Turing Institute, headquartered in the British Library, London, was created as the national institute for data science in 2015. In 2017, as a result of a government recommendation, we added artificial intelligence to our remit.
The Institute is named in honour of Alan Turing (23 June 1912 – 7 June 1954), whose pioneering work in theoretical and applied mathematics, engineering and computing are considered to be the key disciplines comprising the fields of data science and artificial intelligence.
To learn more about what we do, watch our new video on ‘What is The Alan Turing Institute’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjS2sVPR2Zc
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