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Choose a few people to answer if anyone has put their hand up. \u00A0\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EExplain to the group that Ada Lovelace was a famous mathematician and is thought to be the world\u2019s first computer programmer.\u202F\u00A0\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ERead out Ada\u2019s story.\u00A0\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ol\u003E","gtmId":"","gtmClass":""}]}],"config":null},{"type":"fullWidth","areas":[{"items":[{"gridType":"accordion","gtmId":"","gtmClass":"","showExpand":false,"items":[{"gridType":"accordionItem","gtmId":"","gtmClass":"","body":"\u003Cp\u003EAda Lovelace was a leading 19th century mathematician and daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron. Ada Lovelace Day is held every year on\u202Fthe second Tuesday of October.\u00A0\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAda\u2019s mother insisted that Ada was taught logic, science and mathematics from a young age - which was rare for women at the time. From childhood Ada had a fascination with machines. \u00A0\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIn 1833 she met Charles Babbage, who was an inventor and mechanical engineer, and they became good friends.\u202FLovelace was extremely interested in Babbage\u0027s plans for a complicated device called the Analytical Engine. It was never built, but the design had all the essential elements of a modern computer.\u00A0\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ELovelace studied the plans for the Analytical Engine and wrote lots of her own comments about how the machine could work, which have been described as early computer programmes.\u202F She described how codes could be created for the device to handle letters and symbols along with numbers. She also created a method for the engine to repeat a series of instructions, a process known as \u0027looping\u0027 that computer programmes still use today.\u00A0\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer work was published in 1843, in an English science journal.\u202FHowever, it\u2019d be more than 100 years until the Analytical Engine became a reality. Lovelace\u2019s notes inspired\u202FAlan Turing\u0027s work on the first modern computers in the 1940s. Lovelace died on 27 November 1852 at just 36, but her contributions to the field of computer science were not discovered until after her death.\u202F\u00A0\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EHer passion for mathematics and early computer engineering have made her a symbol for modern women in technology.\u202FLovelace has received many honours for her work since she died. 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Therefore, all data that we want a computer to process needs to be converted into binary.\u00A0\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ETell everyone today they\u2019re going to change a word into binary to make it into a chain. It could be their name, a pet or their favourite thing.\u00A0\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIf the young person doesn\u2019t want to wear a bracelet, these\u202Fcan also be made into keychains or backpack pulls.\u00A0\u003C/li\u003E\n\u003C/ol\u003E\n\u003Ch3\u003EMake a binary code bracelet\u00A0\u003C/h3\u003E\n\u003Col\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003ESplit everyone into small groups, sat around tables. 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