From ALD22

Here’s One I Made Earlier

35 different round STEM badge designsLTW Graphic Designer Nicky Greenhorn has kindly created new STEM badge designs for Ada Lovelace Day 2022.

These are designed for 25mm small badges and stickers. We’ve applied a Creative Commons attribution licence to make them an OER (Open Educational Resource).

A4 300 dpi badge designs (via Flickr)

Copyright © Nicky Greenhorn, The University of Edinburgh 2022 CC BY

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

 

Various Digital Skills branded merchandise including pencils, pens, fans and notepads.

ALD Digital Skills competition

Digital Skills competition for Ada Lovelace Day – win a goody bag!

To celebrate Ada Lovelace Day and promote our new course programme, the Digital Skills Team are running a competition to win a bag of branded goodies, including a pen, ruler, fan, water bottle and notebook.

To enter the competition, simply spell out ADA LOVELACE by finding 11 Digital Skills courses that start with each letter. Staff can search the People & Money Learning App for Digital Skills courses, and students can search Event Booking. Each letter should be represented by a different course (no duplicates!). If we don’t have a course starting with one of the letters, you can use a course with a word in the title starting with that letter.

Here is an example of what we are looking for, using ‘Digital Skills’ instead of ‘Ada Lovelace’.

  • D – Developing your digital skills
  • I – Introduction to Audacity
  • G – Getting started with Microsoft Teams
  • I – Information Security: Phish and tips
  • T – Teaching with Wikipedia: a practical ‘how to’ workshop
  • A – Adobe Creative Cloud Express: Introduction
  • L – Library Bitesize: Check your source
  • S – Study resources for literature reviews
  • K – Digital Research Pecha Kucha
  • I – Introduction to data science
  • L – Information Security: The evolving threat landscape
  • L – Introduction to LinkedIn Learning
  • S – Subtitling for media creators

To enter the competition, email your answer to the Digital Skills Team at is.skills@ed.ac.uk by the end of Friday 14th October 2022 – the first 5 correct answers picked at random will each get a goody bag. We will notify winners by email before 28th October. Please note that winners will need to collect their prize from Argyle House.


Blog post by Catherine Koppe (Senior Digital Skills Trainer) and Tracy Steinberg (Data and IT Skills L&D Professional)

Digital Skills and Training / Learning, Teaching and Web Services / Information Services Group

Photograph of laptop displaying the LinkedIn Learning home page

LinkedIn Learning collection

8 video thumbnailsCelebrate the achievements of women in STEM with this collection of courses and videos, inspired by Ada Lovelace, presented by women in STEM industries.

LinkedIn Learning collection

This collection was curated by the Digital Skills and Training team.


Blog post by Digital Skills and Training team

Digital Skills and Training / Learning, Teaching and Web Services / Information Services Group

'Ada Lovelace Day' illustrated portrait of Ada with circuit board background.

Ada Lovelace Day 2022

Photo montage of 5 people making STEM badges and stickers.On Tuesday 11th October 2022, the University’s Information Services team are celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 2022 which is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM).

We have an afternoon of talks, activities and training planned for Ada Lovelace Day.  This will take place on the first floor of the Main Library (Central Area) from 11:00-17:00 in Room 1.07.

You can confirm your attendance via Event Booking now (open to all UoE students and staff):

Book your place

Schedule

  • 11am-1pm ‘No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and colour in the human race’
    • Join us to craft multi-coloured Ada Lovelace and Mary Somerville designs and make your own pin badges and laptop stickers
  • 1pm-2pm Women in STEM snacks and talks
    • Dr. Melissa Highton on why we celebrate Ada Lovelace Day
    • Karen Howie on ‘ Approaching Imposter Syndrome : False Starts and Reflections from a Woman in Tech.’
    • Prof. Emma Hart on how she takes inspiration from the natural world to build computer algorithms and evolving robots
    • Ben McConville, President of the University’s Computer Science Society, CompSoc, on Scotland’s largest tech society – run by students of the University of Edinburgh. CompSoc is a diverse community of computer scientists, programmers, and people who are passionate about all things Tech.
  •  2pm-5pm ‘Changing the ways the stories are told’ – a Wikipedia editing event.
    • 2pm-3pm Join our Wikimedia editathon (Full Wikipedia training – learn how to edit the free encyclopedia!)
    • Short break
    • 3pm-5pm Researching & writing new pages (50 words+) about Women in STEM to publish and share. Nominate your STEM heroines here.
  • 2pm-5pm uCreate Makerspace will also have activities available

University of Edinburgh CompSoc Society

CompSoc Edinburgh in Scotland’s largest tech society – run by students of the University of Edinburgh. Our Society is a diverse community of computer scientists, programmers, and people who are passionate about all things Tech.

As a society, we host monthly Student Tech Meetups, regular workshops, and many social events with a touch of Computer Science culture. CompSoc also organises one of the largest hackathons in the country, Hack the Burgh – with over 150 attendees coming from around the world.

CompSoc is always happy to have people from any discipline and we would love to have you as a part of our community.

CompSoc website