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Graham Gannon
Managing Director
What is a STEM Ambassador?
STEM Ambassadors are volunteers of all ages working in a range of STEM related roles from apprentice engineers to geologists and from nuclear physicists to zoologists. Not only do they have a lot of fun, but they get an opportunity to contribute to their local community and boost their skills and confidence.
There are lots of ways that STEM Ambassadors can get involved; giving careers talks, helping out with STEM Clubs, running workshops in local schools, and much, much more. You can do as little or as much as you want, come up with your own ideas or choose an activity from our regular e-mail updates.
After they have completed their Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check, all STEM Ambassadors receive an induction into working in the classroom and, of course, our regional representative will make sure that you get the help and support you need.
Graham Gannon is certainly not your average scientist - he did a degree in Business Management at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, but had been fascinated with computers since he was a child. While at university he teamed up with a computer science student to start Lime Websites - a web design business which provides companies with content management and e-commerce systems, so that their products can be sold on the internet.
Graham loves the problem solving aspects of his job - he also enjoys working in local schools in Norfolk as an Ambassador. "The young people I visit in schools have some fantastic ideas - we run brainstorming sessions with them on some of the real-life technical problems we face as web designers. I like to show them that science, creativity and enterprise can, and should, go together."
Graham is pictured with a section of binary code. Binary code is the underlying mathematical structure that represents everything in computing.