My Outreachy Journey: From curiosity to contribution – Malika's Blog

#Gnome #outreachy intern's experience. Their story is great, perseverance, intelligence and a chance. The fundamentals of widening participation.

#outreachyintern #linux #wideningparticipation

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https://blogs.gnome.org/malika/2025/12/09/my-outreachy-journey-from-curiosity-to-contributiona/

My Outreachy Journey: From curiosity to contribution

Hello! I’m Asman Malika, and I still can’t quite believe I’m writing this as an Outreachy intern. I’m working on the GNOME project: Improving document signing in GNOME Document Viewer (Papers), focusing on adding both manual and digital signing features, and improving the user interface, through a smoother signing experience. Before I could even imagine...

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One Project Selected for the December 2025 Outreachy Cohort with GNOME! – Felipe Borges

Outreachy is such a great project. One might call it widening participation in computer programming. Excellent!!!!

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https://blogs.gnome.org/feborges/outreachy-dec2025-announcement/

One Project Selected for the December 2025 Outreachy Cohort with GNOME!

We are happy to announce that the GNOME Foundation is sponsoring an Outreachy project for the December 2025 Outreachy cohort. Outreachy provides internships to people subject to systemic bias and impacted by underrepresentation in the tech industry where they are living. Let’s welcome Malika Asman! Malika will be working with Lucas Baudin on improving document signing...

Felipe Borges
Was sent this advert for a space related summer school run by Kings College London. The cost is probably worth it, but that still excludes a huge number of kids. Most egregious though, is that it's within term time, so only available to kids from private schools. As the feedback comments show. More needs to be done on #wideningparticipation

Excited to confirm that I'll be speaking at the #WHEFEvents session on #DegreeApprenticeships on Thurs 18 April 2024 it's an online event and aligns with 2 of my most significant professional interests; #WideningParticipation and #Apprenticeships

More info and book your place here: https://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/conference/Degree-Apprentice-24

AI and Copyright 25

The future for AI and copyright in the UK

RT by @REA_research: November edition Newsletter!
🔻 Article of the month! 🔻
▶️Thirsty for more news on the WIDERA programme?
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▶️ 3 reports on the EEI
▶️ Consortium meeting
▶️ Info Day
▶️ ERA 2024 KD&BE
and more...
👉 https://tinyurl.com/92kxa3x2

#HorizonEU, #WIDERA, #wideningparticipation, #NCP

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/ncp_wideranet/status/1731649756949098859#m

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NCP WIDERA.NET Newsletter - November 2023

We've reached the end of the first week of our Mullany e-Mentoring project, #TogtherMakingFutures. Our project provides digital career support to young people aged 14-19 across south Wales , with a STEM focus. Wonderful to see mentee numbers pick up again to pre-Covid levels, supported by a range of knowledgeable #STEM volunteer mentors. Interested in supporting the STEM workforce of the future in Wales? Watch this space! #local #WideningParticipation #STEM @TheMullanyFund

Conceptualising prospective first-generation entrants’ higher education decision-making as an ‘ecology of intersecting influences’ and an ‘elastic plane’

Louise Gazeley & Tamsin Hinton-Smith

🔓 → https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2023.2228221

#HigherEd #AccesstoUniversity #StudentDiversity #FirstGenerationStudents #WideningParticipation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Let's get visible: evidence-based interventions aimed at supporting, empowering and celebrating student-parents in higher education by Andrea Todd - Read in the latest special EDI edition of #JLDHE No26 https://bit.ly/3YixD14 #LoveLD #StudentMothers #WideningParticipation #Access
Let's get visible: evidence-based interventions aimed at supporting, empowering and celebrating student-parents in higher education. | Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education

Shout out for the Generation Research project which
offers #paid #research and technical experiences to #students from #diverse backgrounds
We're always looking for organisations willing to sponsor a project Please get in touch with [email protected] if you would like to get involved or have any questions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3GEY-NX44w
#biology #research #WideningParticipation
GenerationResearch

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@Dan_C I'll share with some #careers advisers too, as they're spending a lot of time talking to year 11s about A-level choices. Ditto some #university #admissions and #WideningParticipation folk linked to #English and #Humanities departments.

#education #edutooter #school #college