{"id":25,"date":"2017-06-22T14:20:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T13:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/womeninengineering\/?p=25"},"modified":"2018-06-04T17:05:03","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T16:05:03","slug":"an-important-occasion-in-the-stem-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/an-important-occasion-in-the-stem-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"An important occasion in the STEM calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/womeninengineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/541\/2017\/06\/helen-ward-125x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"182\" \/>International Women in Engineering Day is an important occasion in the STEM calendar. There are many different types of engineering and each year our STEM team try to focus on a different type of engineering. Last year, we worked with civil engineers who shared the exciting roles that are on offer for females in this field of engineering.<\/p>\n<p>This year, there\u2019s a focus on chemistry, with girls coming onto the Christ Church campus to experience how chemical engineering plays a part in the manufacture of medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Already this week, 25 girls form Simon Langton Girls Schools have looked at how to make molecules more soluble and how the structure of a molecule influences the properties of medicine.<\/p>\n<p>They learnt that chemical engineers produce chemicals on a large scale, and design and make medicines. As one of the girls said: \u201cI didn\u2019t know what was involved before; I thought it was about companies making money not about ensuring the patients got what they needed.<\/p>\n<p>Girls are more likely to become involved in jobs that have a role with people, so perhaps, as a direct result of this activity and others that Kent and Medway STEM organise, there will be more woman in engineering in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Hellen Ward leads the Kent &amp; Medway STEM at Canterbury Christ Church University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Women in Engineering Day is an important occasion in the STEM calendar. There are many different types of engineering and each year our STEM team try to focus on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":277,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[42,46],"class_list":["post-25","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-inwed17","tag-international-women-in-engineering-day-2017"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"authorName":"Gareth Ward","featuredImage":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/629\/2017\/06\/stem-helen-ward.jpg","postExcerpt":"International Women in Engineering Day is an important occasion in the STEM calendar. There are many different types of engineering and each year our STEM team try to focus on [&hellip;]","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}