Margaret Hamilton

Margaret Hamilton

Computer Scientist

Margaret Heafield Hamilton is an American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner. She was director of the Software Engineering Division of the MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, which developed on-board flight software for NASA’s Apollo program.


'Take These Wings' - Junior School Chamber Choir

Watch our Lower III (Year 6) Chamber Choir perform together with the aid of technology!

Chamber Choir members recorded their own tracks at home and then merged the individual components to produce this performance of ‘Take These Wings’ by Steven Kupferschmid and Don Besig.


Dame Jane Goodall

Dame Jane Goodall

Primatologist and anthropologist

Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her over 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues.

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Delia Derbyshire

Delia Derbyshire

Born in 1937, she is the ‘unsung heroine of British electronic music’

Delia paved the way for the use of tape manipulation and sampling in early hip-hop. She joined the BBC as a Trainee Studio Assistant Manager in 1960 after a failed application to Decca Records (who told her they didn’t allow women to work in their studios). She is the creator of the frightening white noise of the Doctor Who theme tune.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Austrian born Hollywood actress and prolific inventor

Hedys creative ideas included an improved traffic light system, a tablet that dissolved in water to make a fizzy drink and a frequency hopping signal that was incorporated into early versions of Wi-Fi and today’s Bluetooth technology.


Marie Curie

Marie Curie

Physicist and Chemist

Marie is celebrated for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person and only woman to win twice and the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two different sciences.


Grace Hopper

Grace Hopper

Computer scientist and rear admiral in the US Navy

Grace popularised the idea ofmachine-independent programming languages, and invented the compiler, which converts code written in one programming language into another.


Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace

Widely regarded as the world’s first computer programmer

Ada was a 19th century mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage’s proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. She is believed by some to be the first to recognise that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation, and to have published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine. As a result, she is often regarded as the first to recognise the full potential of computers and as one of the first to be a computer programmer.

She is also the inspiration behind Ada Lovelace Day.

Ada Lovelace Day was founded by Suw Charman-Anderson in 2009 and aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. This international day of celebration helps people learn about the achievements of women in STEM, inspiring others and creating new role models for young and old alike.