New edition of "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky"

Sandra Benítez Herrera, Ana Fragoso López, Estrella Zatón Martín and Alejandra Martín Gálvez
Sandra Benítez Herrera, Ana Fragoso López, Estrella Zatón Martín and Alejandra Martín Gálvez
Advertised on
Authors
SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH UNIT

With the aim of motivating interest in scientific and technological (STEM) careers among the younger girls, and to publicise the work of the women astrophysicists and engineers at the IAC, in 2017 the audiovisual series "Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky" was initiated. The series, inspired in the project "No-Nancies" by the astrophysicist Pilar Montañés is included in the project "The return of Henrietta Leavitt: from school to a research career via the theatre", an initiative of the IAC in collaboration with the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) of the Ministry of Science and Innovation.

On February 11th, coinciding with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, a new episode of this series is given its first showing. The previous chapters have had more than 24,000 visualisations, and 16 researchers participated.This fifth chapter includes contributions by Sandra Benítez Herrera, astrophysicist and outreach specialist from the Unit of Communication and Scientific Culture (UC3), Ana Fragoso López, optical engineer, Estrella Zatón Martín, informatics engineer, and Alejadra Martín Gálvez, manager of the preparatory phase for the construction of the European Solar Telescope (EST). In the video they tell us what they wanted to do when they were young, and how they ended up by developing their careers towards astrophysics.

Links to Chapter I:

Links to Chapter II:

Links to Chapter III:

Links to Chapter IV:

Link to Chapter V:

Technical description:

Director: Carmen del Puerto Varela

Producer: Inés Bonet Márquez

Coordinator: Nayra Rodríguez Eugenio

Camera: Inés Bonet Márquez

Archive: Prelinger Archives, Daniel López, Iván Jiménez (IAC), NASA/ESA, Swedish Solar Telescope (SST), European Solar Telescope (EST), Museu de Astronomia e Ciências Afins

Music: Black Mirror, Nine Inch Nails

News type
Press release
Scope
Outreach
Outreach
Gender Equality
General public
Scientists
Technologists
Communications media
Girls who broke a glass ceiling while looking at the sky

It may interest you

  • Artist’s impression of TIC 241249530 b
    Press release
    Eccentric exoplanet reveals how hot jupiters form
    An international scientific team, in which the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participates, has discovered the extremely eccentric orbit of a gas giant exoplanet. This world, called TIC 241249530 b, not only follows one of the most drastically stretched-out orbits of all known transiting exoplanets, but also is also orbiting its star backwards, lending insight into the mystery of how these high-mass gas giants evolve into hot Jupiters , with very close and circular trajectories. The study is published in Nature. Within the population of known exoplanets, there are those that
    Advertised on
  • The IAC hosts a global meeting of the European project The Whole Sun / Inés Bonet (IAC)
    Press release
    The IAC hosts a global meeting of the European project The Whole Sun, that aims to unravel the mysteries of the Sun
    The Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias hosted this week the global meeting of the members of the European project The Whole Sun , a project approved and funded by the European Research Council (ERC) as part of its Synergy Grant calls. The duration of the project is seven years (from 2019 to 2026) and its full title is: “The whole Sun: untangling the complex physical mechanisms behind our eruptive star and its twins”. The main objective of the ERC’s Synergy Grant calls is to promote the joint work of groups of researchers in different European institutions so that all the necessary tools
    Advertised on
  • Clemencia Hardisson Expo@IACTEC
    General
    Expo at IACTEC: Clemencia Hardisson
    This exhibition is a journey through the life of the La Laguna aristocrat Clemencia Hardisson, who, among other contributions, gave the land on which the IAC Headquarters and the Museum of Science and the Cosmos, are currently erected, among other purpose-built buildings, public and private. The exhibition will be open in the Multipurpose room of the IACTEC building, in the morning and afternoon, and admission will be open to the public, free of charge.
    Advertised on