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Love Tech chat to Julie Blackburn after winning the Education and Learning Initiative of the Year award at the 2023 Media Isle of Man Awards for Excellence.

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00:00 So I'm here with Love Tech, who have won the Education Award.

00:04 And this is a group of women who have started

00:07 this wonderful charity that helps to inspire

00:12 and empower and encourage young women

00:17 to look at a career in STEM.

00:19 Do you want to tell me a bit about how you go about it?

00:24 - Yeah, so just to correct, men are involved

00:27 in running the charity as well, so we're all involved.

00:30 - That's fine, very well.

00:31 - We have some token men involved.

00:34 - That's okay.

00:35 - But it is a very female, powerful charity.

00:39 But we were set up to inspire and empower girls.

00:42 - Yes, but obviously you do also deal with boys as well.

00:46 - Yeah, and we don't exclude anybody, but we have events.

00:50 And the purpose is to role model,

00:53 to show role models in STEM.

00:57 So we use a lot of mentors that are in the Isle of Man,

01:00 and they're working in science, technology,

01:02 and engineering and math.

01:03 And we raise their profile, and we bring them to events,

01:07 and we show girls and boys that women are doing those jobs

01:11 on the Isle of Man, and amazing,

01:13 fantastically interesting jobs

01:16 that people don't really know about.

01:18 And we use those role models to show boys and girls

01:22 that that's possible.

01:23 - And you've seen about 5,500 kids

01:27 this year, haven't you?

01:28 - In the last couple of years,

01:29 we've been to all but one school on the Isle of Man,

01:34 primary education, and we've seen a lot

01:36 of high school students as well.

01:38 So we've run a primary school initiative,

01:42 but we've also done lots of other events

01:44 where we've met kids from every background,

01:47 homeschooled, teenagers.

01:50 We try and hit everybody.

01:52 And we also work on educating parents as well.

01:56 - Well, I was going to ask you,

01:57 you have a Tech Mums Award,

01:59 so that mums can keep up, apparently,

02:01 with their offspring. - So we have a mum tech course

02:03 starting in January, and this is the third year

02:07 that we've run that course for specially designed

02:11 to upskill and empower mums or other parents

02:16 that want to just get a little bit more confidence

02:20 around tech so that they can then support their kids.

02:24 - Excellent, well done.

02:26 - Thank you. - Thank you so much.

02:29 (silence)

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