SHARON SWEENEY : Role Models in STEM roject – FESCH.TV

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Sharon Sweeney is a fashion designer who runs a small business that creates bespoke pieces that are ethical and sustainable – using organic, deadstock and recycled fabrics. At the National University of Ireland, Galway, she studied Environmental Science and worked in a lab for a short time before travelling to America where she studied part-time for a course in Fashion, and it was from that experience she realised her passion for design. She returned to Ireland and began studying part time for a diploma at the Grafton Academy of Fashion Design. She now draws from both her design and science background to not only create slow fashion, but also to create awareness around the damaging effects the fast fashion industry has on the environment.

The ‘Role Models in pSTEM: You can be what you can see’ project was created to highlight positive role models for young women in the subjects of physics, mathematics, computer science and engineering. By creating videos for use in classrooms and on social media, the project hopes to make more young women aware of the very many career paths and opportunities available to them by pursuing these subjects. Following the UNESCO framework of factors influencing girls’ and women’s’ participation in STEM, the interviews explore the backgrounds and influences of each of the role models and highlight what they enjoy about what they do.

Further information on the project can be found here: …

The project is led by UCD and funded by the Higher Education Authority and Institute of Physics.

Project partners include WITS (Women in Technology & Science), Institute of Guidance Counsellors, and the Mathematics, Science, Applied Mathematics and Engineering & Technology teacher associations.

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