Advocacy, Networking, & Support for Alberta STEM Programs that Promote Diversity and Inclusion
STEM = Science + Technology + Engineering + Mathematics
Applications for the 2018 AWSN scholarship are now open.
Minerva Mentoring Award Nominations for 2018
Nominations for the 2018 AWSN Minerva Mentoring Award are now open.
2017 Winner: ASTech Special Award: Young Science Ambassador for Sophia Fairweather [link to her video]
AWSN's former President, Jean Springer, has been honored by Calgary's YWCA as one of 150 women they are celebrating for 150+ years called She Who Dares. YW Calgary is thrilled to share our Canada 150 project: a creative, engaging and interactive installation highlighting the stories of 150 women, known and lost to history who have impacted Calgary during the last 150+ years. Their stories are able to be seen at their webpages and through being able walk through the installation itself. The installation will be able to be visited at various locations around Calgary. Currently the installation is at:
November 2 – 16 2017
Three AWSN members have been nominated for Canadian Business Chicks 150 Women of Inspiration awards and two were winners! See their interviews with Monica Kretschmer, Founder and CEO of Canadian Business Chicks and Women of Inspiration (click on their name). To learn more about Canadian Business Chicks and their Women of Inspiration event Saturday, September 30, 2017, Telus Convention Centre, Calgary, click on their logo left.
Alicia Bjarnason - AWSN President
June 12, 2017: The following documents were produced by the ministries of Treasury Board and Finance (Office of Statistics and Information) and Status of Women:
There are plenty of ways to recognize the pioneering women who've made unique contributions to science, technology, engineering, and math. But GE chose an unorthodox strategy by creating custom-designed animations of 12 influential women in STEM and projecting them onto the ceiling of Grand Central Terminal in New York City.
|“Canada succeeds when women and girls are given opportunities to succeed.”
International Monetary Fund researchers say the federal government can afford to spend $8-billion annually to reduce the cost of child care spaces nationwide because the program would pay for itself.
The proposal is more than 10 times what the Liberals have promised to spend annually over the next decade on child care.
The IMF predicts the cash would... Read more
STEM Learning Lab has released their magazine "STEM Education Today" and will be taking subscriptions starting Sept, 2017.
STEM Education Today is a free resource that provides a platform where everyone can become a part of an ever-growing network of global innovation and change.
READ it by clicking on on the cover.
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