{"id":3480,"date":"2020-10-05T15:48:51","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/?p=3480"},"modified":"2020-10-05T15:48:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T14:48:51","slug":"ada-scotland-festival-starting-13-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/ada-scotland-festival-starting-13-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Scotland Festival &#8211; starting 13 October"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ada.scot\/\">Ada Scotland Festival<\/a> is a series of online events focused on addressing gender imbalance in Computing Science education in Scotland. The University of Glasgow\u2019s Dr Matthew Barr leads on the initiative, alongside Festival co-founders Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (Edinburgh Napier University) and Toni Scullion (dressCode) and a voluntary <a href=\"https:\/\/ada.scot\/about\/advisory-board\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"292\">advisory board<\/a>, drawn from across the sector.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<strong>Ada Scotland Festival<\/strong>\u00a0brings together organisations who are keen to bring more women and girls into\u00a0computing and IT. It is:<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 a celebration, aligned to Ada Lovelace Day,<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 a new network, joining up people and activities in this space,<br \/>\n\u2022\u00a0 a hub for girls and young women (eg at school) to get inspired about opportunities to study and work in computing and IT.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s festival will take place entirely online. It kicks off on <strong>13th October<\/strong> and will run a series of events and activities throughout the week.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2020\/10\/Ada-Scot-Fest-October-2020-flyer.pdf\">Ada Scot Fest October 2020 flyer<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ada Scotland Festival is a series of online events focused on addressing gender imbalance in Computing Science education in Scotland. The University of Glasgow\u2019s Dr Matthew Barr leads on the initiative, alongside Festival co-founders Dr Ella Taylor-Smith (Edinburgh Napier University) and Toni Scullion (dressCode) and a voluntary advisory board, drawn from across the sector. The\u00a0Ada Scotland Festival\u00a0brings together organisations who are keen to bring more women and girls into\u00a0computing and IT. It is: \u2022\u00a0 a celebration, aligned to Ada&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}