Inspiring women doing amazing things
All around the world there are incredible females breaking STEM boundaries every day.
Get to know the young women who feature in our virtual reality film and who support girls getting into STEM.
Who could you be?
Sally Wilson
Meet Sally, a Visual Effects artist who brings computer generated film characters to life. Most recently she's been responsible for transforming Snoke’ in
‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ and ‘Maz’ in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ whilst working as a Lead Texture Artist at Lucasfilm’s Industrial Light & Magic.
Role Lead Texture Artist 
Industry Film
Florence Adepoju
At 18, Florence joined London College of Fashion to study cosmetic science. Her dream was to create a product unique to her needs whilst building her own business.
Now, at 22, Florence is the founder of MDMFlow, a premium beauty lifestyle brand which reflects hip-hop culture, design and science.
Role Cosmetic Science Entrepreneur Industry Fashion
More info www.mdmflow.com
Claire Canning
Meet Claire - an engineering doctorate student within the Industrial Doctoral Centre for Offshore Renewable Energy (IDCORE) at the University of Edinburgh. She's working on a 3-year industrial placement at an EDF Energy research and development centre, as part of the offshore wind team which uses EDF Energy's Teeside Offshore windfarm as a case study.
Role Engineering student Industry Engineering More info edf-er.com
Roma Agrawal
Meet Roma - a structural engineer who helped shape the London sky line. She spent six years as part of the team designing the iconic Shard, and has also designed bridges and scupltures. Outside work Roma co-founded 'Your Life' which is all about getting more students to study maths and physics.
Role Structural Engineer Industry Engineering More info romatheengineer.com
Claire Mitchell
Meet Claire - she's a software developer at 27partners, where she develops products for the web. She studied engineering at University and taught herself to code via online courses and free code school Founders & Coders, then decided to pursue it as a career. Alongside her day job, Claire is passionate about coding education in such a fast paced tech world; she runs regular, free workshops and boot camps especially for women who want to learn how to code.
Role Software developer Industry IT More info www.27partners.com/
Beth Thomas
After doing work experience at the EDF Energy Nuclear Power Station, Beth became a permanent member of the team after finding her passion in the energy industry. Day-to-day Beth monitors the performance of the Heysham 2 plant, working with operations to keep it running smoothly.
Role Chemical Engineer Industry Energy More info edfenergy.com/energy/power-stations/heysham-2
Christine Waata
Christine is a SMR Lead at EDF Energy and her team is currently developing the next generation of nuclear technology. It's her responsibility to manage different activities and work with colleagues from all over the world to drive forward a project which will change the way we produce energy in the future.
Role Plant Performance Engineer Industry Energy More info edfenergy.com/energy/nuclear-new-build-projects
Ann Makosinski
Ann is a 19 year old student inventor. She is known for inventing the Hollow Flashlight - a light which runs solely off the heat off the human hand. She received numerous awards including the Google Science Fair Award and four from the Intel Science and Engineering Fair. She has most recently invented the eDrink - a mug which harvests the excess heat of your hot drink while waiting for it to cool down and converts it into electricity.
Role Inventor and Entrepreneur Industry Thermoelectricity More info pulse.edf.com/en/torch-powered-heat-hand
Ciara Judge
Ciara is a scientist and entrepreneur from Ireland. She's won the BT Young Scientist and the Google Global Science Fair award and was named as one of the 25 most influential teens worldwide by Time Magazine in 2014. She is now co-director of her first company Germinaid Innovations and has since begun her second startup company, PurchaseMate. She is currently working on a youth outreach platform called Project Zilkr to provide an online programme that inspires young entrepreneurs.
Role Student and Entrepreneur Industry Agriculture More info www.ciarajudge.com
