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📢 How can events like our recent Blackathon help nurture coding Black female careers? Join self-taught programmer, Made Tech software engineer and Blackathon team member Folora D. at Coding Black Females career week to find out. Whether you fancy a career change or you're looking to develop your coding skills, join Folora online for advice and inspiration. 📅 28 February 2024 ⏰ 1pm to 2pm GMT Register 👉 https://www.madetech.com/events/tech-career-diversity/ Can't make it? Don't worry, register today and you'll get it on-demand!
"Celebrating successes is not something we do enough in our lives." 🚀 Last week we had the pleasure of attending the Women in Tech Excellence awards to celebrate Catherine Quilley's nomination. Before they danced the night away, we caught up with a few of the team to chat about women and diversity in tech. Watch below to see what they had to say. 👏
Our first ever Blackathon will take place Friday October 13 to Saturday October 14. This special hackathon is on the theme of Black progress, honouring the work of Black inventors, writers and activists that have made a significant impact on society. It doesn’t matter if you’re an engineer, designer, product manager or if you’ve never looked at a line of code – this is a chance to participate in a technology project that celebrates Black innovators. If you work in the public sector you’re welcome to come along. Numbers are limited so please register as soon as you can:
In this blog post, Software Engineer Evie Skinner talks about building the Queer Tech Bristol LGBTQIA+ tech community meetup. Have a read and, if you’re in the Bristol area, get involved. Great stuff, Evie!
There’s no wrong way to get into software engineering. To end the week, here’s a super blog post from Emma Keeley on making the leap from accounting and finance to software engineering via the Made Tech Academy. Thanks for sharing, Emma! 🔧🎓🏔️🚀
Breaking the stigma around mental health starts with talking about it in the open. For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek, we thought we'd re-share this. A super blog post from members of our wonderful team:
“On paper, it might look like you have 10 people working on the team. But actually clients can benefit from the shared knowledge of many different teammates”. 🌍🚀 From the blog, on the value of communities of practice:
For Neurodiversity Celebration Week 2023, Made Tech Talent Partner Oli Monks talks about why it's important to raise awareness about neurodiversity, and shares ways to make sure every team member and candidate feels supported. 👏💚
Two members of the Made Tech team write about their experiences with ADHD, learning in the open, offering support, and making life a little easier.
For Black History Month, Made Tech Lead Delivery Manager Ayo Olatunde writes about making Black history in the workplace, and showing commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion.
