Girls In STEM

View from the edge of space from the Croydon High School Astrogazers Club's high altitude meteorological balloon Bell-Burnell payload (Credit: Bell-Burnell payload, Astrogazers, Croydon High School)

Astrogazers Reach For the Stars With One of the First Double Weather Balloon Launches From a UK School

View from the edge of space from the Croydon High School Astrogazers Club’s high altitude meteorological balloon Bell-Burnell payload (Credit: Bell-Burnell payload, Astrogazers, Croydon High School) A dedicated group of girls at Croydon High School, led by Physics teacher and King’s College London alumna Arabi Karteepan, embarked on a remarkable journey to become the first …

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Members of the Chandrayaan-3 ISRO team celebrating the successful soft landing of the spacecraft

The Rocket Women of Chandrayaan-3

Members of the Chandrayaan-3 ISRO team celebrating the successful soft landing of the spacecraft on the Moon In 2009, India’s Chandrayaan-1 mission, the country’s first lunar mission, detected water on the Moon concentrated at its poles. On Wednesday 23rd August 2023, India made history by becoming the first country to successfully land a spacecraft in …

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Rocket Women Featured In Dutch Lesson Series

Rocket Women are thrilled to be involved in an educational Dutch lesson series – titled “Travel to a black hole” featuring Rocket Women Founder Vinita Marwaha Madill, developed by Leiden University.  We’re so excited that the lesson has been shown in schools across the Netherlands beginning late last year and aims to inspire and inform …

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Interested In The Science of Movies? Apply for Marvel’s New Challenge!

Marvel Studios are offering an exclusive internship for one talented budding female scientist! Along with the release of Captain America: Civil War, Marvel’s “Girls Reforming the Future Challenge” is aimed at female applicants who are interested in STEM (science, technology, engineering & mathematics) and share the same goals as the Avengers team onscreen. Namely, “The commitment to safeguard humanity, …

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