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The IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Affinity Group of SLTC presents LUMINOUS to all female undergraduates on the island to promote and urge them to pursue their education and STEM careers while drawing inspiration from accomplished women throughout the world. This project motivated and empowered all female undergraduates in Sri Lanka to adapt to the fast-paced progress in science and technology by motivating them to strive for success and professional growth through listening to podcasts and reading biographies of successful women who accomplished greater achievements in history and the present moment. This will increase female undergraduates’ self-esteem as well as their employment prospects in Sri Lanka. Female education in STEM includes child and adult females represented in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In 2017, 33% of students in STEM fields were women. We selected some women who had done their valuable service through these fields, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in our flyer series. Luminous Reflect , the flyer series was conducted to reflect exemplary and passionate women professionals in STEM to the Sri Lankan society to empower and motivate especially the female undergraduates to reflect themselves and succeed in life. In our first flyer, we selected Ada Lovelace as the stem woman because she introduced many computer concepts. She was considered the first programmer. Throughout her life, she was interested in scientific developments strongly. October 13 marked Ada Lovelace day It highlights the achievements of women in STEM. Through her contribution to STEM, we learn how we invent or discover those massive tasks. Jocelyn Bell Burnell was the next woman in STEM of the flyer series, who made a discovery that altered our perception of the universe. She discovered pulsars-compacts, spinning celestial objects that give off beams of radiation. From their lives, we learn to get rid of barriers like low expectations in science subjects for girls, inadequate career guidance, sexist language at work and education, everyday biases that undermine women’s authority, and hiring processes that discriminate against women. Then we selected Uma Chawdhry as the next STEM woman who was an expert in ceramic material science. Her contribution to the science of ceramics, where she chaired the academy’s emerging technologies committee. Actually, she is a great woman who inspires students to massive inventions. The next woman in the stem flyer was Piscopia Elena Cornaro . She was a Venetian philosopher of noble descent who became the first woman to receive a doctor of philosophy degree. This role model shows us what women can achieve, and encourage female students to fulfil their potential. The 5 th flyer we published was about Edith Clarke who was the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the united states, our main aim was to make the path motivating fresh female undergraduates to strive for success and professional growth through this flyer series, as well as this make the opportunity to inspire women in engineering stream and make a reason for women to be involved in this exciting and diverse field of study. The 6 th flyer we published on about Dorotea Bucca , an Italian noblewoman known for studying medicine and philosophy. She is one of the powerful women who made her path in a situation in which were not typically given much respect for females. The 7 flyers we published about Ellen ochO becoming the world’s first Hispanic female Astronaut. Ellen Ochoa’s career offer how invention can lead to adventures. So it makes the path to inspire undergraduates who are interested in stem and how far strong women can fly through space. The last flyer we published was about Alice Eastwood who was a well-known botanist and an ardent environmentalist as well, it also makes the opportunity to make the path and motivate their selves to strive for success and make a license to discover their dream jobs. Undoubtedly, female undergraduates were empowered and excited by the life-long achievements of these STEM women who were reflected in society by the Luminous Reflect . The female undergraduates were motivated to be their own reflection by driving towards their passion uniquely to achieve more and succeed in life. So Learning about this empowered women make the opportunity to be inspired with learning medicine.