Follow your star... at MyDaughter

Skip to navigation Skip to content

Follow your star...

Thursday 22 December 2011

Categories: Careers, Education, Role Models

Now girls have a role model who parents will heartily endorse – Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock – a female Professor Brian Cox. She may not have been in a rock band in a previous incarnation but she has triumphed over her dyslexia to become the lead scientist at a British space technology company. Dr Pocock now tours inner city schools urging pupils, and especially girls, to study science.

Appropriately in this festive season her message is one of hope. As Dr Pocock goes round schools breaking down stereotypes about science she tells students how she was diagnosed as being dyslexic and was “shunted into remedial classes”. But when she was just 10 she discovered science, a spark in her was ignited and from then on she followed her star.

She says “There are not that many women, and not many black women, in science but it is a wonderful subject. The most important thing is not to give up because you can’t spell”.

Inspiring, engaging, gently steering, positively encouraging, sometimes challenging….all these are what parents do as they raise their daughters. Helping each girl to find and then follow her star is the best reward a parent could hope for this Christmas.

Posted by Alison Morris

Your comments

Nobody has posted any comments yet, why not be the first?

Add my comment…