By Freddie Lough Recently I sat down with our own Robogals Marketing Manager Raksha Ramprasad Venkata Suvarna to talk about her passion for artificial intelligence (AI) and being a role model for women in STEM. Robogals Global Marketing Manager (2022) Raksha Ramprasad Venkata Suvarna Experience in school As a engineering university student, she reflects on […]
Legend of Robogals: Chloe Thai – APAC SINE 2021
Robogals congratulates Chloe Thai for receiving the Legend of Robogals award due to the huge impact she has made over a difficult year. Many places were hit hard from lockdowns, however Chloe led the chapter to reach more than 650 students across Victoria. During her time as President, workshops were run […]
#People of Robogals: Eliza Li – A Blessing in Disguise
By Imogen Feder Robogals Global was lucky enough to speak with young social entrepreneur Eliza Li (Managing Director & Co-founder of Halad to Health) this week. In 2019, while still at university, Eliza and a group of her biomedicine peers travelled to the Philippines to run preventative health education lessons in the local schools. Seeing the […]
The Robogals Alumni Mentoring Program
By Imogen Feder Our Alumni Mentoring program was launched virtually on the 8th of October, bringing together past and present Robogals volunteers from Australia, Belgium, the Philippines, Indonesia, New Zealand and the US. The aim of the program is to match Robogals’ alumni with current volunteers, to help build their networks, provide support and share […]
#PeopleOfRobogals: Amina Berrada
By Imogen Feder For our latest People of Robogals blog, we had the pleasure of talking to engineer Amina to discuss her decision to move overseas to study, her passion for mentoring female science students and her fascination with studying light – and electric fish. Amina Berrada You can tell Amina is passionate about electric […]
#PeopleOfRobogals: Alexa Nguyen – Cracking the Code
By Imogen Feder In late 2019, Robogals sat down with Alexa Nguyen, a Software Developer at SEEK, to discuss the importance of encouraging girls to try coding and programming at a young age. Pathway to Coding Alexa first started a Science degree in 2013 at the University of Adelaide. Like a lot of […]
New Territory – Elspeth De Fanti shares her career in Forestry
By Imogen Feder Elspeth De Fanti A message lost in communication led forestry student Elsepth De Fanti to remote Tasmania, where she hiked through incredibly dense bush and worked on field sites for 10 weeks. At the time, she didn’t realise that she was almost overlooked for the forestry placement, which was “90% outdoors […]
Robogals takes off in Nairobi
Robogals University of Nairobi President Catherine Akinyi Odera Catherine Akinyi Odera is the inaugural President of the newly established University of Nairobi Robogals chapter in Kenya. She is currently awaiting graduation from her course of Geospatial Engineering. What inspired you to start the University of Nairobi Chapter of Robogals? We found out there were […]
“Children from a young age should be exposed to engineering in a fun and creative manner”: Emma Fox on challenging stereotypes and bridging the gender gap in STEM.
This blog is part of our #PeopleOfRobogals series. This series highlights our volunteers from across the organisation, from our chapters to our leadership team and board members. Robogals is made possible by our amazing volunteers from across the globe, ranging from students to professionals of all genders, ages and backgrounds. We come from a wide […]
‘It becomes an asset’: Brooke Smith on being one of the few Female CEOs in the Virtual Reality world
Champagne Soda is a Melbourne-based tech company using virtual reality to drive immersive experiences specialising in the real estate industry. We sat down with their CEO, Brooke Smith, to hear about her experiences as a female driving digital innovation. What is it like being a female CEO? In the VR world, there aren’t many female […]