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Leicestershire Chemistry Hackathon(November 2024 to January 2025)

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We’re excited to announce the launch of eight STEM Hackathons across Leicestershire, in collaboration with the Royal Society of Chemistry! These FREE, action-packed events are designed to ignite student creativity, enhance problem-solving skills, and foster teamwork as they tackle real-world STEM challenges while working on projects that could shape the future of science and sustainability. …

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Wonder Women Tech feature

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In this article by Wonder Woman Tech, Jessica Okoro’s journey as a student and a young leader, championing the promotion of education in STEM as well as their relative careers prospects. It highlights her educational background, career, the BeScience Charity and also outlines some of her other achievements with BeScience STEM. Full article can be …

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Rare Rising Stars 2016- Top 10 Black Students in the UK

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Jessica Okoro, founder of Be Science STEM, together with nine other black students in the UK, was honoured as a Rare Rising Star. The Rare Rising Star programme honours Black students who are making strides and positively impacting society in their various fields of study. Being named as part of the Top 10 students in …

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BeScience brings STEM workshops to local families

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Community Foundation features BeScience STEM in an article that shares some of the works of BeScience STEM as well as its founder, Jessica Okoro’s initiatives and platforms that puts the vision of the charity into realisation . Some of the charity’s programmes such as LibraryLab catered to targeted groups e.g. families who were experiencing homelessness, …

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New Mentoring Network to Support Student Entrepreneurs into Business at DMU

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De Montfort University’s DMUworks Enterprise Network links founders with entrepreneurial students who will share advice, deliver talks at DMUworks Enterprise events and take part in regular activities such as podcasts and the new startup schools. This is to support students with a passion to start their own businesses. Benefiting students will be able to call …

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Dluxe People; Talk to Jessica Okoro about BeScience STEM

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In an interview with Jessica Okoro, founder of BeScience STEM with Dluxe, she spoke about her life as a student, what it means to be struggling with the subjects you’re most interested in, as well as her long held desire to get children excited about learning and to change any thoughts that science isn’t fun. …

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Celebrating BAME Women in STEM Innovators

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In honour of Black History Month, STEM women celebrates BAME Women in STEM , innovators making history today. Jessica Okoro, founder of BeScience STEM and a consultant was celebrated alongside other inspirational women in the STEM industry. ,As a multi-award winning organisation, Be Science aims to engage communities in STEM by using creative, innovative and …

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O2 Think Big Features Jessica Okoro

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With the support of O2 Think Big, Jessica set up the BeScience charity to embark on projects to help open up the world of STEM to the community. Jessica is known for giving TED Talks every now and then and has received endorsements from the Prime Minister, Theresa May. Jessica has been committed to creatively …

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Prime Ministers Point of Light Award -Making science exciting

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Based on Jessica’s story of taking her STEM education into her own hands and then going on to change the misconceptions in her local community, together with her volunteers, through BeScience’s programmes such as the ‘Creative Kids Lab, Pop-up workshops,they have proven how creative and fun Science can be. Jessica was awarded a Commonwealth Point …

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Lets Localise Partnership

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In order to reach out to young and budding minds with the endless opportunities within the STEM industry, BeScience STEM has partnered with Letslocalise, a platform that connects schools to localised communities, to bring STEM professionals, to share their experiences as well as opportunities and prospects within the STEM industry through the STEM Social Virtual …

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