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English: Inspirefest Panel of next generation leaders – which included the 10-year-old EU Digital Girl of the Year for 2014, Lauren Boyle, Anne-Marie Imafidon the founder of Stemettes as well as Emer Hickey.

Lauren Boyle became EU Digital Girl of the Year 2014 at the age of nine.

In September three Irish students won a global science research competition at the GoogleScience Fair 2014 in San Francisco. Ciara Judge, Emer Hickey and Sophie Healy-Thow from Kinsale Community School, Cork were named the grand prize winner in the 15 to 16-year-old age category for a project which examined the use of natural bacteria to increase crop output.

Anne-Marie Imafidon has always been interested in business, Maths and technology. Her rather unique set of achievements include passing two GCSEs aged ten (Mathematics & ICT), holding the current world record for the youngest girl ever to pass A-level computing (aged 11), being named on Evening Standard’s recent list of ’25 under 25s’ & a Guardian ‘Top 10 women in tech you need to know’ and being one of the youngest to be awarded a Masters’ degree in Mathematics and Computer Science by the University of Oxford, aged 20. She was also named the UK IT Industry & British Computer Society’s Young IT Professional of the Year in 2013, Red Magazine’s ‘Woman to Watch’ 2014, the 2014 FDM Everywoman in Technology ‘Rising Star’ and won a Points of Light award from the UK Prime Minister in October 2014.Previous work at Goldman Sachs, Hewlett-Packard, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers mean she has amassed a wealth of experience. Most recently Anne-Marie has set up the Stemettes project – a bid to inspire the next generation of females into Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics roles via a series of panel events, hackathons and exhibitions.