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🏠 I currently live just outside Glasgow with my boyfriend, we have just bought a flat so we’re doing a lot of painting and building furniture just now!

👩‍💻 I use she/her pronouns.

💃 As if my life wasn’t busy enough with a full time job, I’m also a dance teacher! I teach around 40 boys and girls aged 2-17 in a few different styles of dance. I absolutely love dancing as it allows me to be creative, I can express myself and it keeps me fit! Music is also a huge part of my life, I’ve always got music on whether its in the shower or when I’m working. I particularly love 70s/80s soul music but a more current favourite is Dua Lipa.

🌎 I am a massive fan of all things Disney – movies, music and theme parks. Once the world is a bit more normal I can’t wait to book to go back to Disneyland Paris, so I can take my boyfriend on his 1st trip there! I love travelling in general and hope to visit some European cities soon, next on my list is Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰.

I work for Sky as a Technology Graduate. In this role, I move between four different jobs in Technology and once I’ve tried them all I am able to decide where I want to work, which is amazing!

Myself and many others at Sky are currently working on a new Software Development project , where we are developing an app that will allow people to buy Sky products. This is things like Sky TV, Broadband or Mobile. 

I work in a scrum team where we all work together to produce features for the app, which are just different parts of the app that we need to create. I firstly spent some time working as a Developer, which meant I had to learn to code. This was brand new to me so it was hard work, but overall it was such an interesting job.

I am now a Scrum Analyst, which I’m sure you’ve never heard before, as I hadn’t until I started! It is my job to research the features, tell the Developers which features they are working on and then help Developers if they have any questions. 

To research a feature I create User Story Maps. These are diagrams that show the team how the app will be used by people who work in Sky shops. For example, if we were looking at how someone might use the app to buy Sky TV, this is how that would look.

The purple tasks are big sections and all of the yellow underneath are things that need to be done so that we can say the purple is complete.

A fun fact about me is that alongside my full-time job, I’m a dance teacher! I have been dancing since I was ten and now have the privilege of teaching at a fun dance school just outside Glasgow. I would love to be able to bring together my love of STEM and Dance.

Some people are visual learners, where you learn by seeing things like colours, pictures and words. Some people are audio learners who learn by listening. But others are kinesthetic learners – these people learn by doing, with lots of hands-on work and activities. I want STEM subjects to be accessible for young people, and I understand that that’s not the case right now for some because of the way they learn. I want to create a program to teach STEM subjects – Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths – through dance, sports and movement. As a qualified dance teacher, I know that dance can help everyone to be able to express themselves, and I would love to see this used to teach STEM.

Firstly, I would want to start running some trial sessions with people and schools I know. If I won the money, that would be incredibly helpful for me as it would help me buy equipment for the workshops. I would also be able to use it to create resources like posters and worksheets, which I can take to workshops.

If this project goes well and pupils enjoy it, I would love to start a non-profit where resources will be available to teachers and group leaders for free. I would also be able to continue to run workshops in schools myself. As far as I know, there is nothing like this that exists right now in the UK. It would be amazing to help people teach STEM in a way that’s fun and memorable.