Ada Lovelace Day – Nottingham 14th October 2025 at MediCity

21 Oct 2025

15 Park Vale students took part in the Ada Lovelace day celebrations held at MediCity Nottingham where, for a day, they took part in hands on activities, run by inspiring female scientists who are based at MediCity and work in the local STEM industry.

‘An event celebrating and celebrating women and girls in STEM in honour of local Nottinghamshire legend Ada Lovelace‘

Who was Ada Lovelace: Ada was the 19th century mathematician who is considered the founder of computer science.

Between 1842 and 1843, Ada worked with Charles Babbage to translate an article on the calculating engine, supplementing it with an elaborate set of notes, simply called Notes (later published in Taylor’s scientific memoirs). These Notes contain what many consider to be the first computer program with the first algorithm intended to be processed by a machine.

Lovelace’s Notes included a ground-breaking description of the possibilities of programming the machine to go beyond number-crunching to “computing,” including speculating on its future ability to create graphics and complex music.

She was also the daughter of romantic poet Lord Byron.