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Our Girls Get WISE Science Summer Day-Camp for girls is back! If you are a girl 12-14 years of age, come spend a week with us this summer and participate in exciting hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math activities. You will also have the opportunity to study zebrafish development throughout the week, and discover rewarding careers in STEM by chatting with local women who are working in STEM careers!
Camp runs from July 30-Aug 3 and costs $100 per camper. Registration will open March 21, 2018 and will be available at: https://juniorggwcamp.eventbrite.ca
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The Girls Get WISE Science Summer Camp is an exciting day-camp where girls 15-16 years old have the opportunity to engage in STEM through hands-on activities and labs, explore scientific research by listening to presentations by local researchers, and discover rewarding careers in STEM by meeting and chatting with local women working in these fields!
The camp will run August 20-23, 2018 from 10:00am-3:00pm daily.
Registration will open March 21, 2018 and space is limited. Cost is $100 per camper. Registration will be available at: https://seniorggwcamp.eventbrite.ca
On April 7, 2018 WISEatlantic hosted their largest Girls Get WISE Science Retreat yet with 80 girls participating! This year featured three hands-on activities, Nifty Neuroscience, Electrifying Chemistry, and the Mathematics of Winning. We were also fortunate to have El Jones, the Mount's Nancy's Chair in Women's Studies, join us to perform an inspiring spoken word poem. As always, thank you to our sponsors, partners, volunteers, and role models for making this event a success!
WISEatlantic Chair, Dr. Tamara Franz-Odendaal, was honored to participate in the Diversity in STEM: Why It Matters panel discussion at Acadia University on March 6th, 2018. Other panelists included Ulrike Bahr-Gedalia, CEO of Digital Nova Scotia, Dr. Imogen Coe, Dean of Faculty of Science at Ryerson, and Denise Pothier, Vice President of Practice Services at Stantec. Special thanks to Dr. Randy Newman at Acadia for organizing this event. WISEatlantic was a proud sponsor.
The NSERC Chairs for Women in Science and Engineering are pleased to release a new report entitled "Analysis of the Distribution of Gender in STEM Fields in Canada". This report, compiled by Andrea Perreault, takes a focused look at the percentages of women and minority groups in the STEM professions in all regions of Canada.
The full report is available on our resource page.
The WISEatlantic Research Team has released another paper from our survey of grade 7 & 9 students in Atlantic Canada.
See what events we have coming up and what we’ve been up to in the latest edition of our newsletter!
WISEatlantic currently provides sponsorship for STEM based team initiatives for youth, such as FIRST LEGO League teams or Let’s Talk Science Challenge. The team must be comprised of 50% or more girls. Download the sponsorship application HERE!
