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Have a say in the redesign of the new SCWIST website:
answer this short 3-question survey!
Want to do more?
Join us at work sessions on Mar 23 and/or 30 at the Creekside Community Center, Vancouver.
We will also work on re-branding and crafting a strategy for more effective reach and greater impact for our communications channels! Bring your own laptop.
Serving healthy snacks and pizza dinner. Bring the kids! Sign up here.
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The WHY of technology entrepreneurship
in creating educational economic access
The technology expansion has opened up a plethora of possibilities for innovation, but it also comes with the challenge of learning how to use it. Annee Ngo took on the challenge and is now using technology to support students through learning and economic opportunities as a result.
Annee created Startup League after she completed the StartEd program at New York University, which is the parent company of both Protohack and QUP. Together, Protohack and QUP help Annee achieve her goal of economic access and inspiring innovation. She now runs as Startup League as the CEO with her other two co-founders, Rukshana Hassanali and Matthew Jones, but it was a journey to get there. Read more.
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Women at greater risk of losing jobs to automation
but their skills could shine in better roles
-STAR Business Journal
“Automation taking jobs away is not necessarily a bad thing...Both in academia and in various areas of IT (information technology), I’ve definitely experienced that women are under-represented in leadership and executive positions ... There are systematic problems in our society where we don’t have diversity … There is bias in hiring, there is bias when we promote people, and there’s a lack of female role models.” - Christin Wiedemann (past SCWIST President)
Read more.
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Our Communications Team is expanding across Canada!
Communication leads, writers, event curators and photographers wanted!
Interested? Send us a cover letter, resume and writing sample.
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SCWIST congratulates Dr. Janilyn Arsenio, Vice Chair of WISDOM Manitoba, for receiving major funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation's John R. Evans Leaders Fund. The grant will support research infrastructure for Dr. Arsenio's work on understanding how single T cells become functional immune regulators. Information from this research will be used to develop novel vaccines and immunotherapies to prevent and treat infectious and non-infectious diseases. Dr. Arsenio is Canada Research Chair in Systems Biology of Chronic Inflammation and Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Immunology, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.
WISDOM Manitoba is an affiliate group of SCWIST, headed by Dr. Neeloffer Mookherjee, Associate Professor within the Departments of Internal Medicine and Immunology, University of Manitoba. Read more.
In photo: Hon. Kirsty Duncan, Canadian Minister of Science with Dr. Arsenio and Dr. Mookherjee.
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Upcoming event: WISDOM Equity Symposium on April 10, 2019 (9 am to noon) at Canad Inns - Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg, MB. Keynote speaker is Dr. Cara Tannenbaum, CIHR Director, Institute of Gender and Health, and invited speaker is Dr. Flordeliz (Gigi) Osler, President, Canadian Medical Association.
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Every year, participants get to meet amazing "Wonder Women" with careers in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields. This event allows participants to learn about how other women have navigated their career paths and shows them possible career trajectories. This year's event brought 170 attendees to Science World to meet and learn from 36 Wonder Women, from a rocket scientist to a wood engineer. This event has sold out for nearly 10 years straight and boosts the careers of women who are still students or who are looking to change careers. Teaching valuable networking skills in a low-risk environment that features a wide variety of careers is what make this event amazing every year. More photos here. Have photos to share? Upload here. (Danniele Livengood, SCWIST Director for Events)
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Each floor of the Anvil Centre in New Westminster was packed with 600 attendees on March 3 and 4. Holding up to its acronym, participants were really given the opportunity for Youth Exploration and Experimentation in Technology (YEET). SCWIST workshop tables were reimagined as encyclopedic entries in the two action-packed days. Teaching children about forensic entomology, SCWIST member Payten Smith and volunteer Cassidy Smith painted a picture of crime scenes and post mortem intervals with maggots! The following day, Vienna Lam gave an anatomical tour of various skeletal bones. Overall, it was the perfect way to kick-off Innovation week! (Payten Smith, SCWIST Youth Outreach Team)
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Microsoft kicked off this year's International Women's Day celebration with a panel discussion on March 3rd, on the theme: "Women in STEM: Past, Present and Future." The panel consisted of (right to left): Megan Chambers (ASTTBC), Shay Kingsbury (Women in Tech World), Selyn Chen IEEE-WIE Vancouver), Chen Wan (Genome BC), Khristine Carino (SCWIST) and Collette Cheung (IBM). Also in photo: Kayla Grabia (Microsoft Business Expert and IWD event organizer) and STEM girl Kim Chua (Tinypreneur). Not in photo: Sadaf Abdul (Microsoft Community Engagement Specialist and IWD event organizer). Photos by Melissa Ong-Chua.
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Girl Guides of Canada- West Coast Area Council celebrated International Women's Day with a STEM Career Fair attended by 525+ girls/women at SFU. SCWIST Youth Outreach/ Ms Infinity team led by Vienna Chichi Lam provided hands-on activities introducing the Guides to forensic entomology, squishy circuits, fingerprint science, Morse Code and coding/robotics.
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In photo (L-R): Cheryl Kristiansen, Fariba Pacheleh, Maria Gyongyossy-Issa and Anja Lanz.
Leaders from SCWIST's Make DIVERSITY Possible Project Team attended various events at #BCTECH Summit. This included “Women Who Tech” which showcased diverse talent leading innovative technology companies. Panel discussions included “How to Build the Future of Tech” and “Diversity in Artificial Intelligence (AI)”. Other Summit highlights: the importance of eliminating bias to build responsible AI; the first Muslim woman in space who encouraged us to “dream it and then do it”; the need for inclusivity in the neurogeneration; “Embedding Innovation into Everyone’s DNA” and the “Triple Bottom Line: Why Doing Good is Good for Business”. For more information, check out @makepossible_ca and #BCTECHSummit on Twitter. Full line-up of speakers here. (Cheryl Kristiansen, SCWIST Make Possible Project Coordinator)
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Participants from Genome BC explored the business case for diversity; learned about unconscious bias; discussed barriers to success; and worked together to develop solutions to advance equity, diversity and inclusion. The SCWIST Diversity by Design Workshop engaged participants with interactive elements including: a demonstration of 360 degree mentoring and skills-exchange; exploring layers of diversity; and connecting with new people to find one thing in common/one thing different. If your organization is interested in hosting a SCWIST Diversity by Design Workshop, please contact Project Manager Cheryl Kristiansen at ckristiansen@scwist.ca for more information. (Cheryl Kristiansen, SCWIST Make Possible Project Coordinator)
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Letitia Henville topbilled SCWIST's Pub Night for March, talking about her journey towards a freelance editorship in the scientific writing community and providing advice on writing for academic and corporate audiences. Participants engaged actively sharing their struggles with technical writing. Leticia responded with do's and dont's for the following topics (and more): writing an email in corporate sector, writing a long grant proposal, the time frame and mental preparation for writing blogs, short reports, or long grants. Letitia emphasized that as an editor, her main focus is on style of writing rather than correcting grammar. Her general advice for effective writing:
- Limit the number of words per sentences.
- Find replacements for any 'to be’ verb and limit the frequency of prepositions.
The important takeaway of this session was: learn the technique of writing concisely and effectively to pass accurate and complete information to your audience, whether in academia or in industry. Find more of Letitia's advice and resources at shortishard.ca. (Neha Gadhari, SCWIST Communications Team)
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Ms. Infinity is recruiting eMentors!
eMentoring is a free 8-week program of the SCWIST Youth Outreach team under the banner of Ms. Infinity program. Girls in high schools across BC are pairedwith female role models in STEM careers. Students and their mentors are sent weekly discussion questions, covering topics such as their career path, post-secondary life, work environments, finances, work/life balance, and what to do with your degree. eMentoring is done entirely over email. The time commitment is approximately 1 hour a week. If you are interested in becoming a mentor, please contact Ashley.
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Are you based in Prince George or Kamloops?
Sign up for our speaker bureau!
Available in April? Be our guest speaker in the 2nd SCWIST meet-up in Prince George.
Theme: Career paths, determining career of choice, achieving goals, overcoming obstacles and celebrating successes.
Format: Interactive presentation with Q & A. "It should feel more discussion and feel less like a lecture."
Where: Exploration Place in Prince George
When: This will partially depend on the speaker’s availability, however, we are hoping to hold the next one in April on either a Tuesday or Thursday evening at 7 pm.
Commitment: Come about half an hour early to the event space, meet-and-greet and have time after the talk to answer questions. (The meet-and-greet wouldn’t be the responsibility of the speaker to lead as it is anticipated that other women in STEM careers in town will be happy to mingle and share stories with one another!)
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When: April 9, 2019 (7:00 pm)
Where: The Pint Public House, 455 Abbott St, Vancouver
The regular Pub Night has been upgraded for one night only!
Let's raise glasses and funds for SCWIST! When you buy a ticket to this event, $15 will be donated to our fund. Feel good about giving as our local artist guides you and your friends through two hours of painting, drinking, and laughing ‘til your cheeks hurt. The best part? You don’t have to be an artist to have an amazing time. And! The Pint have kindly offered us 20% off any food ordered on the night! Register here.
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Thursday, April 11, 2019 | 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT | Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC) Welcome Centre, 2610 Victoria Drive, Vancouver
Join IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE), Society of Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST) and Immigrants Services Society of BC (ISSofBC) in this STEM Women in Leadership Panel discussion. Our women leader panelists will share and discuss their failures, challenges, and things they do that help them to succeed in their career. Only with the celebration and recognition of failures, we then can slowly lead to the path of success!
Panel speakers:
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Science Slam at the Beaty: Women in STEM
Mar 21, 2019 (6:30 – 8:30 PM) | Beaty Biodiversity Museum, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver
In honour of Women's History Month Science Slam YVR is hosting a "Women in STEM" event at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at UBC!
Science Slam brings together science and creativity in a fun, informative night out! Competitors have 5 minutes to explain a science-related topic in the most entertaining and engaging way possible. Applications to speak for this event are still open! Tickets here.
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Thu, March 28, 2019, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM PDT
L'Atelier Coworking, 319 West Hastings Street, #400, Vancouver
This event is for you if:
• You’re genuinely interested in coaching but don’t know where to start.
• You’ve had enough of how you feel or where you are right now, and are ready to make changes.
• You’re curious to explore how coaching can help you feel less stuck, dissatisfied, overwhelmed, confused, or frustrated, and support you in a more thriving, happier, fulfilled, confident, authentic, balanced life, career or business. Register here.
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There are now over 1000 MakePossible members!
We are growing across Canada and internationally. Women AND men with diverse expertise, STEM skills, business experience and leadership capabilities are joining our mentoring network:
- Undergrad students, grad students, post docs and faculty
- Engineers, scientists, software experts and technologists
- STEM outreach providers, business leaders and retired professionals
Join and browse our members. Connect with someone NEW today. Please keep sharing MakePossible in your network: 360 degree mentoring and skills exchange helps reduce bias, advance diversity and create inclusive cultures. Let's work together to Make DIVERSITY Possible!
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SCWIST’s membership rate has dropped for the remainder of the fiscal year! (memberships reset on May 1, 2019)
Membership gets you reduced rates into all SCWIST events including $10 off the ticket-price to our pub night events, Wonder Women Networking Events, FREE entry to our AGM in June and more!
Sign up now!
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SCWIST NEWSLETTER EDITORS
Khristine Carino, DMD, PhD
Olga Zamudio Prieto, PhD
STAFF
Rosette Joseph, Toronto
Neha Gadhari, Vancouver
Tugce Tuysuz, Montreal
Nasira Aziz, Vancouver
Accepting article, photo and event submissions.
Deadline: 12th and 25th of the month.
Email: director-communications@scwist.ca
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