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Since its inception, Ada Lovelace Day has become international in scope, with events organized by groups ranging from museums, professional societies, universities, colleges and high schools. While Ada Lovelace Day is the second Tuesday of October, events celebrating women in STEM typically span the
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on the second Tuesday in October as a means of raising awareness about the contributions of women to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (
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is an annual event held on the second Tuesday of October to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to
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period of October and November, and include diverse activities ranging from in-person and virtual Knowledge (XXG)
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In 2022, Charman-Anderson announced that this would be the last year in which the organization that she founded,
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While this celebration of the often overlooked contributions of women in STEM was named for
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and Katie Chan at an Ada Lovelace Day event sponsored by Wikimedia UK in 2012.
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stepped in with funding and the organization Ada Lovelace Day has carried on.
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Annual event celebrating the contributions of women to STEM fields
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The day was founded in the United Kingdom in 2009 by
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Frosted cake featuring iconic portrait of Ada Lovelace and text Ada Lovelace Day 2013.
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Ada Lovelace
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"Celebration of women in science and tech ending"
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"Ada Lovelace Day: We should never forget the first computer programmer"
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"Why Ada Lovelace Day matters"
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"Ada Lovelace Day: how much do you know about women in science? – quiz"

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