Sam Hubbard

“I was involved with the WISE Bus in 1994/95, it visited local school and as local industry I supported it.

As a female role model for my employer, we took a level and flow control rig with us and explained about some basic principles while showing the level and flow changing in the process. The WISE Bus was parked in the school grounds, we were in a classroom, the girls moved around from the bus to different classrooms learning about different types of exciting engineering.

I continued with my commitment to encouraging girls in to exciting engineering careers, this later led me to win the IET’s Young Woman Engineer of the Year 2000 and the WISE Excellence Award in 2001. I really enjoyed this and it raised my profile in my work environment. I wish I had experienced the WISE Bus when I was at school –

I did notice, not all the girls were interested and they knew it wasn’t something they wanted to listen to… the girls who were interested though really enjoyed the practical side of making the changes and seeing what happened. I think this is the same today, a lot of girls already have it in their head that Science and Engineering is not for them, but the girls who do have an interest show real enthusiasm!”

Sam Hubbard, Process Control Engineer at UPM Shotton