A journey and a half through STEM

Hi! 4 days. 75, 000 people. 1 building. And a truck load of Science. What is this wonderful place, I hear you think. Well let me quench your curiosity. 2 years ago I went to the National Science and Engineering Competition at the Big Bang fair (I will be referring to it as the Big Bang for short). Before having the time of my life there were many things that I needed to do first. First: Actually have a project, and to do that I, along with my team of 5 other people designed a roof top garden to look like what most of your bedrooms would look like and certainly similar to mine. A whole bunch of experiments, concrete making and a few arguments later.. We were off to the Regional finals of the Big Bang fair at King's way college in Westminster and we didn't get off to the best of starts. We were around 45 minutes late (Hey! Don't judge, have you tried driving through Central London before? If you haven't? DON'T) and then to get worse we find out that we are to

Hi! As you can probably tell  by the name of this blog, I'm pretty big into STEM. But I wasn't always like that, believe it or not I used to hate maths and science with a passion, and a large part of the reason why was because it was soooooo BORING!!! But that changed at some point because I got invited to do a whole bunch of cool things. Recently I was lucky enough to get accepted to the Year 10 Insights Summer school at Imperial College London and to be perfectly honest I didn't know what to expect. We all walked in one by one, carefully selecting our seat, trying to sit as far away from the next human being as possible. A room full of 42 semi-socially awkward young people, who didn't know each other... Yep, just as awkward as it sounds. But any who, they got us all to introduce ourselves with a series of painstaking ice breakers, They were cheesy but extremely effective because by the end of it we were speaking as if we'd known each other our whole lives.

Hi! My name is Vanessa and I love science. I have a crazy fascination with astronomy and more generally how things work. Ever since I was in year 5, I have always been the one who wanted to know that little bit more or the one who would ask one more question than I probably should and I started to realise that very few others were like that. So I'm writing to all you girls who have that 'weird' interest Pythagoras or who are closet experts in Kinetic theory, To the girls who deal with numbers the way other girls walk in 6 inch stiletto heels (Shout out to the girls who can do both!). Being a girl in today's society is so hard because so much is expected of us. We are expected to look like what society deems beautiful and to think in the way that girls are expected to think because we are supposed to leave all the real thinking to the men... right? WRONG! Some of the most powerful minds in human history have been from women and likewise some of the most amazing dis