I Wish Founders Honored For Encouraging Females To Pursue Careers In STEM
‘Cork Person of the Year’ Awards Organiser, Manus O’Callaghan, paid tribute to the founders of I Wish as they were named March ‘Cork Persons of the Month’. “I’m delighted to announce that Ruth, Gillian and Caroline have been acknowledged for their vision in setting up the I Wish initiative and their dedication to encouraging young […]
I Wish 2017 Inspire Award
Let’s not forget our I Wish 2017 Inspire Award winner Anne O Leary Ceo of Vodafone Ireland. This award was kindly sponsored by Ronan Daly Jermyn and Richard Martin was there to present Anne with the award. Anne O Leary who is from Cork said ” The culture behaviours and environment that we create in our companies […]
Diversity in the Workplace
The statistics are stark… In 2015, the World Economic Forum estimated that, at then current rates, gender parity in the workplace would not be achieved until 2133 (ref. 1). This further declined during 2016 with indications being that it will take as much as 169 years for the world to close the economic gap completely […]
I Wish Wins LAMA Award
We are thrilled that I Wish & Cork City Council collected a LAMA Community & Council award for Best Education & Training Initiative on Friday night. Our very own Ruth Buckley was there to collect the award along with her colleagues from Cork City Council. We would also like to congratulate Dublin City Council who picked up several awards at the […]
CIT & I Wish Campus Week
Congratulations to Mary Moloney & Norma Welch of CIT who ran CIT/I Wish Campus week last week where 80 students over the course of the 5 days took on an interactive programme which allowed the students to immerse themselves in STEM via applied & practical interactive workshops, site visits and demonstrations. One student was nominated […]
Why Is The Tech Industry Still So Male Dominated?
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Co-Founder Gillian Keating Encouraging Young Females To Pursue Careers In Stem
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Dell Robotic’s Tournament
Fantastic to see some great coverage of the first Dell Robotic’s tournament of 2016/2017 on today’s examiner. We are excited here at I Wish to see these VEX Robotics in action in February at our event.
Ireland Should Aim To Be A World Leader In STEM Education
Minister for Education and Skills, Richard Bruton TD, launched an expert report on education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) in Irish schools, and set out a programme to deliver on the ambition set out in the report of making Ireland a world-leader at providing STEM education. http://www.education.ie/en/Press-Events/Press-Releases/2016-Press-Releases/PR2016-11-24.html