Home 2016 Aminah Din Age: 19Location: Glasgow Aminah began playing football at five years old. This year she was a YoungScot Awards finalist for Diversity, following up on a Scottish Women in Sports Role Model of the Year award last year and a Scottish Asian Sportswoman of the Year award…
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Home 2016 Angele Tomo Age: 27Location: Glasgow Angele first came to Scotland 2 years ago for the Commonwealth Games to represent Cameroon, competing in the women’s freestyle wrestling 69kg event, where she won a silver medal. Angele started competing at age 11, after being introduced to the sport through friends.…
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Home 2016 Caitlin Goodale Age: 23Location: Fife / Sweden Caitlin is a Junior UX Designer for King in Malmö, Sweden. She won the Outplay New Talent Award at the Abertay Digital Graduate Show this year, and she was the IGDA’s Women in Games Ambassador at the Games Development Conference 2016.…
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Home 2016 Cherry Campbell Age: 11Location: Glasgow At eight years old, Cherry was selected to play the beloved character of Katie Morag in the BBC adaptation of the Katie Morag book series by Mairi Hedderwick. She was the youngest ever BAFTA award winner, picking up the award for Best Performer…
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Home 2016 Claire Hastings Age: 26Location: Dumfries and Galloway / Glasgow Claire was named BBC Radio Scotland’s Young Traditional Musician of the Year in 2015 and works with the brilliant Live Music Now Scotland, performing and running workshops in day centres and care homes. Claire has also worked with Glasgow…
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Home 2016 Eilidh Doyle Age: 29Location: Perth and Kinross Eilidh has won silver medals at two Commonwealth Games, including Glasgow’s in 2014. She captained the Scottish athletics team at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, too. She was a 2014 European Champion – the first British woman to win the gold medal…
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Home 2016 Emma Sutherland Age: 13Location: Edinburgh After her mum was diagnosed with cancer, Emma used her own experiences and new-found knowledge to write a one-of-a-kind book aimed at helping teenagers and young people cope with a parent who has cancer. In 2014, she was the YoungScot Award winner for…
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Home 2016 Estelle Maskame Age: 19Location: Aberdeenshire Having begun writing a trilogy at 13, Estelle garnered millions of fans of her novels on Wattpad by 17 years old. She now has a three-book deal with Edinburgh-based publishers Black & White Publishing. Not really interested in going off to university or…
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Home 2016 FemEng in Rwanda Age: 19–22Location: Glasgow the FemEng network was established back in 2013 with Equate Scotland, bringing women together from across Engineering programmes, and organising events and outreach to raise awareness of women in Engineering and to influence the next generation of engineers. Malaria medication was the…
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Home 2016 Flora Shedden Age: 20Location: Perth and Kinross Flora was a contestant on Great British Bake Off who made it all the way to the semi-finals. Since her time on GBBO, Flora has put her studies on hold – she was due to start an Art History degree at…
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