Renishaw Celebrates International Women in Engineering Day

Renishaw is hosting numerous activities this year to promote engineering as a positive career choice for women, including an activity day for young women and their parents, readings of the new “Little Miss Inventor” book at local primary schools and a cinema evening for the movie “Hidden Figures.”
Renishaw has over 130 trained STEM Ambassadors, one-third of whom are women, including Jess Henson, a development engineer at the company’s Neurological Products Division who answered a series of questions about her role and women in engineering.
At school, I always enjoyed science, particularly the practical experiments, where you get the chance to apply what you’ve learnt from a textbook. I also enjoyed art, although at the time I didn’t appreciate how this would help me in an engineering career with creativity and problem-solving. Going on an engineering experience event was a key moment in understanding what an engineering career would actually be like.