It Takes A Spark ✨

About The Program

R-Ladies Melbourne has been excited to present at the 2019, 2022, 2023 and 2024 It Takes a Spark Conference, organised for students and teachers to participate, learn and be inspired by current advances in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Dionne and Kathleen presented this year’s workshop.

R-Ladies Melbourne’s workshop is called “Become a disease detective - solve an outbreak!” and all our learning material is available online as a website and slides with the code to create the website and slides available on our github (website code and slides code).

Caitlin (left) and Shazia (right) presenting in 2022!

Caitlin presenting in 2023, with Dionne and Lauren (not shown) assisting.

R Education

Our continued participation in this program has helped us to identify various successes and challenges that we need to overcome in order to teach R and coding skills to students and teachers who have little-to-no experience.

We will be discussing this in a meetup soon!