Resources – Page 18

Video – Cassie Myra, Irving Worker Cassie Myra, an apprentice electrician working for Irving at the Halifax shipyard, discusses how she got involved with the trades, at a time when she was a mother with a young baby. Her career pays very well and provides a great quality of life for her family. She speaks […]

Video – Technology Needs Women

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Video – Technology Needs Women Mona Badie, Chief Information Officer and Chief Digital Officer for GE Hitachi Nuclear, a $1 billion global business, and has a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering. In this presentation, she advocates for having more women in STEM fields. She gives many examples of what happens unintentionally, when the […]

Video – Women in Technology: through the eyes of my daughter

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Video – Women in Technology: through the eyes of my daughter Mark MacNaughton, an Information Technology leader, viewed the lack of women leaders in science and technology-related fields as a simple math problem. A kitchen table conversation with his daughter made him realize that the math problem wasn’t the main problem he needed to solve. […]

Video – What it Takes to be a Woman in STEM

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Video – What it Takes to be a Woman in STEM Fatima Alkaabi is currently a rising senior college student majoring in computer engineering at Virginia Tech in the U.S.A. Fatima was recognized as the Youngest Emirati Inventor in 2015. She has a passion for creativity and innovation since she was 7-years-old. She was able […]

Video – Sharing Her Stories: Women in STEM

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Video – Sharing Her Stories: Women in STEM This video is a recording of a panel discussion with three women who are trailblazers in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) in Canada. Valerie Overend, a Red Seal carpenter, is an advocate and encourages young women and girls to pursue non-conventional career paths. […]

Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM

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Workfinding and Immigrant Women’s Prosperity in STEM This benchmark pan-Canadian study uses qualitative and participatory approaches to examine the work finding experiences of highly-skilled immigrant women as a way to deconstruct mainstream ‘explanations’ and rhetorics informing the increasingly narrow economic focus of Canada’s immigration policies. Along the way, the impact of austerity-led devolution of publicly-funded […]

Ingenium Educational Resources Discussing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM using the Poster Series

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Ingenium Educational Resources Discussing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM using the Poster Series The Women in STEM stories and posters can be used to explore equity, diversity, and inclusivity (EDI) with your students. Possible curriculum connections and learning outcomes are listed and each resource includes suggestions for adapting to grades 4 to 6, grades […]

Ingenium Women in STEM Posters

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Ingenium Women in STEM Posters Explore stories of 75 Women in STEM through this series of posters. Download one or all of the posters to share in your classroom, community centre or workplace and help us profile amazing ideas and the people who developed them. Credit: Ingenium For more information on this resource click here. […]

Video – Women in Construction

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Video – Women in Construction Julie Kulinski, Program Director for the Moore Community House Women in Construction Program, speaks about how going into the trades was not a message she was given when she was growing up in Mississippi, where women were trained for traditionally female jobs or outside the workforce altogether. She recounts how […]

Video – Women in Trades in New Zealand

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Video – Women in Trades in New Zealand This video is a feature story from New Zealand about a number of young women in the trades who feel supported knowing that they have female colleagues in the trades and that there is a support system set up for them during their training. Credit: Ara New […]