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Aimee Chan is in the “Top 25”

Congratulations to Aimee Chan on being named a 2013 “Top 25 Women of Influence”.  Aimee is the President of Norsat International Inc. (a leading provider of innovative communication solutions), a UBC alumna and Creating Connections speaker. Now in its third year, the Top 25 is designed to celebrate and showcase the achievements of the most influential […]

Article: Is a Career in STEM Really for Me? An 8th Grader’s Perspective

An 8th grader provides some insight as to why she and her friends are not likely to consider a career in STEM. “Even as we’re being pushed toward engineering, we aren’t being told or shown what engineering is. Instead, we’re assigned simplistic exercises like building bridges out of drinking straws and marshmallows or telling a […]

Announcement: New Women in Mining Branch, Kamloops

Women in Mining Vancouver Branch is please to announce the launch of the third Women in Mining Branch in B.C., “WIM Kamloops”. Mafalda Arias, Chair of Women in Mining Vancouver, has been working with Nicole Trudell, Chair of WIM Kamloops, since May to assist and support her in the organization of WIM Kamloops. Read the […]