9 October 2024

IBM & Ada Lovelace Day 2024

IBM helped us to deliver another fantastic Ada Lovelace day yesterday. Ada Lovelace Day is annual event to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to STEM fields. We mark this day by providing the students with a full timetable of workshops, keynote speeches and events - many…

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10 June 2024

IBM deliver CV Writing workshop to Year 10

On Friday, lots of IBMers visited Ada Lovelace school to deliver the next workshop in a series to our Year 10 students.

This workshop was all about CV writing. The students learnt about what makes a good CV, Dos and Don'ts and then practised writing a personal statement. For many this is the…

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30 April 2024

Year 11 visit to IBM

On Friday, our Computer Science students visited IBM offices on York Road. IBM had prepared an enlightening and varied afternoon for the students. They were able to see the Quantum Computer up close, hear all about the Mayflower, IBM's AI controlled ship in an immersive room and see Spot the…

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25 March 2024

IBM run Presenting with Purpose workshop

Last week all of our Year 10 students were engaged in a workshop which was led by IBM. We are so grateful to our IBM partners who sent 25 of their young IBMers over to run a workshop on Presenting with Purpose. 

The purpose of the workshop was to teach our Year 10s to be able to understand…

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11 October 2023

Ada Lovelace Day 2023

IBM joined us in school yesterday to help deliver a range of workshops and keynote presentations to our P-Tech students.

IBM delivered an Agile Thinking workshop to our Year 7s. They ensured it was a fun session by briefing them to make as many paper aeroplanes as they could to a certain spec.…

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12 June 2023

IBM delivers CV writing workshop to our Year 10 students

Last week, IBM came in to school to deliver an invaluable workshop to our Year 10 students. The workshop focussed on tips and skills on how to write a successful CV. They gained insight on how to make their CVs impactful and stand out, and then they had a go at writing their own personal…

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27 March 2023

Y10 students take part in IBM workshop

Last week, our Year 10 students took part in workshops delivered by our friends over at IBM. They learnt all about the importance of non verbal communication, such as: body movements, eye contact, appearance and posture. They then logged into SkillsBuild and began working on the Professional…

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14 December 2022

Trip to University of West London

On Friday 11th November, 20 Computer Science students in Years 10 and 11 attended an exciting workshop held at the University of West London.

Students were given the chance to participate in an engaging programming workshop led by the Computer Science faculty at the University. It was a…

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12 October 2022

Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day 11 October 2022

Yesterday the whole school marked Ada Lovelace Day, and what a celebration it was!

All students were fortunate to listen to an inspiring talk about Artificial Intelligence from Emma Dawson, a Senior Inventor and Engineer at IBM. She walked us through her career path to where she is now,…

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