Current Projects

WIE-VR (Women in Engineering, Vancouver Region)

Women in Engineering (Vancouver Region)is a network and professional development group focused on building a community for female engineers in the Lower Mainland.

WIE-VR offers career and professional development workshops, and provides female engineers with an opportunity to build and expand their professional relationships.

The Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology (SCWIST)

SCWIST is a non-profit society whose mandate is to recruit, retain and support women in science, engineering and technology, and continue that support throughout the women’s careers.

WWEST supports SCWIST’s new annual workshop series, which will cover topics that serve the needs of key audiences – students, professionals and immigrants – such as work-life balance, personal marketing strategies and management and leadership skills.

UBC GIRLsmarts

BC GIRLsmarts is a 1-day Computer Science workshop for grade 6 girls.

WWEST Partners supports their mission to associate positive experiences with computing technology, clarify stereotypes and build confidence through exposure to hands-on activities and enthusiastic volunteers.

Girl Guides of Canada – BC – SOAR 2011 Enviro-STEM

Girl Guides of Canada is the largest organization for girls and women in Canada, with a mission to enable “girls to be confident, resourceful, and courageous, and to make a difference in the world.”

The WWEST Partners project supported the inclusion of science, technology, engineering and mathematics activities at the 2011 BC Spirit of Adventure Rendezvous international camp.

Girls Exploring Physics, SFU

The ‘Girls Exploring Physics’ workshops aim to introduce grade 9 and 10 girls with the many opportunities that physics offers. They participate in hands-on physics activities and discussions on the career opportunities available to students who study physics at the university level.

GEERing Up! UBC Engineering & Science for Kids

GEERing Up! is a non-profit organization with the mandate of promoting science, engineering and technology to youth across BC.

They offer workshops at elementary schools in May and June, and camps at the University of British Columbia in the summer.

IEEE WIE Affinity Group, Vancouver: STAR

IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) STAR (Students, Teachers and Research) program promotes involvement of IEEE members with local junior high and high schools in order to increase awareness about careers in science and engineering.

UBC, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Outreach Program

Through relevant events and programming, the Outreach program aims to communicate to the community at large the excitement and wonder of physics and astronomy.

WWEST supports the program in their development of a hands-on workshop for female students in grades 6-8 focusing on putting physics and engineering in a social, realistic and non-scientific context (i.e. sustainability, the environment), and encouraging girls who don’t consider physics and engineering relevant and interesting to see these subjects in a different light.

UBC Okanagan, Women in Science and Engineering

The Women in Science Committee at UBC Okanagan supports the success of young women transitioning from their undergraduate education to a career in science.

They present workshops that address career topics for undergraduate and graduate students, and facilitate mentoring between students and industry professionals.

UBC WISE (Women in Science and Engineering)

The UBC WISE networking event brings together women engineering and science students with industry mentors in a “speednetworking” setting, providing inspiration, motivation, and new perspectives on their future careers.

BC Young Women in Physics Canada Conference

The 3^rd Young Women in Physics Canada Conference aims to bring together young women in physics, astrophysics and engineering to share research concerns, advice and experiences, and to work on issues relevant to succeeding in education and research and launching a science/technology-oriented career

Leadership Through Diversity at UVIC

Leadership Through Diversity is a student-run group that aims to provide engineering students with a chance to get involved in leadership-building opportunities and develop their soft skills, help students to gain leadership skills, promote self development, and increase involvement in faculty-related events and socializers.

BC WIE and SFU WEG, Enhancing Collaboration Initiative

The first step towards a more formal collaboration between the three groups servicing female students in Engineering at UBC, SFU and BCIT, this initiative aims to create a wider support network for female students studying engineering in the greater Vancouver area.

The initiative will allow students to better educate themselves about post-graduate opportunities and challenges, including obtaining advice on work-life balance and graduate studies.

SFU WEG and SFU WICS

SFU Women in Computing Science (WICS) and Women in Engineering Group (WEG) are collaborating to strengthen the voice of women in Computing Science and Engineering, and to support and guide women from both schools throughout their academic career.

WWEST supports the group’s Corporate Opportunities Program that aims to offer guidance into the corporate world through networking events and company visits.

Canadian Undergraduate Math Conference

The Canadian Undergraduate Math Conference (CUMC) is the largest gathering of undergraduate students with an interest in mathematics-related fields.

The WWEST Partners project supports their ‘Women in Mathematics’ dinner at the 2012 CUMC, aimed at bringing women in mathematics-related careers together with female mathematics students, to share their experience in surmounting the challenges faced by women in science