The Atherton Award

🎉 Celebrating Scarlett from South Hampstead High School, GDST on winning the 2024 #AthertonAward for her design of a simulation that demonstrates the effect of centripetal forces on satellite motion and the impact of changing its orbital radius. Well done Scarlett! #womenentrepreneurs #youngentrepreneurs #womeninSTEM

🎊 Congratulations to Estelle and Megan at Norwich High School for Girls GDST on winning the #AthertonAward for entrepreneurial thinking.  Estelle and Megan's award entry was a programme to introduce students to different engineering disciplines. They were motivated by the fact that engineering remains a largely male-dominated industry and it can be challenging for girls and women to access the same career opportunities that men can 💪🏼 #womenentrepreneurs #youngentrepreneurs #womeninSTEM

👏🏼 A round of applause to Penelope from Marlborough School who won the 2024 #AthertonAward for her startup, Track Tutoring, which connects students with on-demand tutoring clients, making tutoring more affordable and accessible. #womenentrepreneurs #youngentrepreneurs #womeninSTEM

👏🏼 A round of applause to Penelope from Marlborough School who won the 2024 #AthertonAward for her startup, Track Tutoring, which connects students with on-demand tutoring clients, making tutoring more affordable and accessible. #womenentrepreneurs #youngentrepreneurs #womeninSTEM

🏆 Congratulations to Riya S for winning The Atherton Award! 🎉 Amber Atherton is an investor, a serial entrepreneur, an author and a former star of reality TV show Made in Chelsea. The Atherton Award in an annual prize given to any pupil who displays entrepreneurial initiative. The winner of each school receives a trophy, £500 and a day of mentoring with Amber Atherton’s team. Croydon High School had some fantastic entries this year – from a fully operational revision resource on YouTube to a Maths App. Year 9 pupil, Riya, won this year’s award showing amazing entrepreneurial spirit by designing a bottle condensing water vapour into clean drinking water. Below are words on behalf of Amber Atherton: “Today I am delighted to recognise Riya S as the winner of The Atherton Award. Wanting to ensure the human right of clean drinking water for all, she designed a water-generating bottle that condenses water vapour into clean water. To understand more behind this process, she took two STEM courses with the Open University to learn about the engineering behind the product. With this start-up capital and in our mentoring sessions I’m excited to see it go through product testing to get to a design that is ready to patent. Congratulations Riya and congratulations to everyone who entered. Croydon High girls have entrepreneurial spirit in bucket loads and I can’t wait to watch, and maybe one day invest, in the incredible businesses you might build!” https://buff.ly/4d6BS7j GDST (The Girls' Day School Trust) #AspireWithoutLimits #EveryGirlEveryDay #TheAthertonAward #WomeninSTEM

Congratulations to Lower Fourth pupil Sofia for winning this year's Atherton Award! Sofia's maths learning and practice app, Mathletico, aims to enhance numeracy skills and confidence in everyday maths for children aged 8- 18. Users can access randomised puzzles with unlimited time to practice and points to be won. Sofia coded the app and already has her first corporate client, Barking and Dagenham College. Winning the award, Sofia was given £500 start-up capital for the next phase of her product journey. Sofia said, 'I was so pleased to win the Atherton Award...I want to spend this money on building the website to make all the games on the app accessible to more people.' The Atherton Award, founded by entrepreneur Amber Atherton, recognises and celebrates the entrepreneurial spirit of young women. It is run in schools across the UK, and pupils aged 11+ are encouraged to apply. 👆 tap the link to read more: https://lnkd.in/eMQgijAC #WorldClassWycombe #WAInnovation #WomeninSTEM #AthertonAward #WAScience

Congratulations to Rhea at Northwood College for Girls GDST on receiving the #AthertonAward for her e-marketplace, which enables the purchasing and exchanging of second-hand school material. The idea addresses a definite problem, is socially-responsible, and also responds to the wider cost-of-living crisis. #womenentrepreneurs #youngentrepreneurs #womeninSTEM

Delighted to see this year's Atherton Award winners coming through! #womeninSTEM #femaleentrepreneurs

Another Atherton Award winner from Royal High Bath, GDST, Sophie, was recognised for setting up the Green Garage, a center where the local community could refill cleaning products, to reduce packaging waste and emissions. We admired her courage in turning the idea into a reality: buying cleaning products in bulk, creating a logo, flyers and selling to the public out of her garage. In mentoring sessions since, we have been discussing how to market and scale the idea beyond her local neighbourhood.

Yesterday, some of our Atherton Award winning students and teachers gathered at the Royal Academy of Engineering to hear from inspiring women in STEM. 🏆 Our winners, though just at school, have created anything from impressive hardware that recycles heat from the back of fridges to fully compostable shoes! Next generation's STEM leaders. 🚀 Thank you to our speakers for sharing your time and insights: Sherry Coutu CBE, serial founder, angel investor and non-exec director of Pearson and Raspberry Pi; Min Nolan, COO, firstminute capital; Ana Avaliani, Director of Enterprise, Royal Academy of Engineering; moderated by Amber Atherton, Partner, Patron. ➕ Great to hear about additional initiatives open to students such as Founders4Schools and Maths4Girls. 💫 Some parting advice for our young entrepreneurs from Sherry Coutu CBE: "Create the world you want to live in."