Accenture together with STEMEttes and Schools North East ran a ‘technology for girl’s’ event at the Sage Gateshead in order to help each girls how to write basic HTML and build web pages and to also raise the profile of STEM. At this event representatives from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research spoke to over 300 girls aged 11-13 about Mitochondrial disease and careers in science.