Resources: Pre-university
There are so many impressive resources to help pre-university students learn about science and engineering that sometimes my head spins thinking about them. Something I've always wanted to do was build some sort of collaboration between all the different outreach efforts because I believe that there is more impact when people work together. Also, considering the number of women graduating from engineering has been relatively steady in Ontario for a good decade (20% +/- a few percent), I can't help but think that these programs are not good enough. Maybe it's this collaboration that's missing... Anyway, the list of resources below is my effort to put everything together. I hope they help and if you have any questions feel free to contact me.
- List of outreach programs in Ottawa that promote and teach science and engineering I helped create through CU-WISE. There are a lot of very interesting opportunities out there such as Go ENG Girl, Design Tomorrow's World, Let's Talk Science, and The Ottawa Science Fair.
- Try Engineering is an international website about engineering: explore what it's like to be an engineering, ask experts, search universities, and find approved lesson plans.
- Advice for undergraduate students is a document I wrote that can give you an idea about the challenges of studying science or engineering. I also wrote a blog about it.
- Blog about my journey from high school to grad school.
- Nerd Girls is a global movement which celebrates smart-girl individuality
- GirlGeeks is an online community with for women interested in technology including discussion forums, news, scholarships, etc.
- Inventive Women is a website all about Canadian women who invented everything from chocolate chip cookies to computer programs.
- Dilbert the engineer video (funny) and the BigDog Quadruped Robot video (stunning)
- Skills Canada is an organization that promotes careers in technologies to Canadian youth. They have some pretty cool competitions too.
- IEEE has a program called TISP (Teacher In-Service Program) which provides educational activity plans for pre-university educators to increase technological literacy. Please don't hesitate to contact TISP if you think your teacher would be interested in being involved in the program. There's also the K-12 Computer Science Teachers portal for teachers, university faculty, and industry practitioners as well as the Saturday Academy based in Oregon.
- List of outreach programs in Ottawa that promote and teach science and engineering I helped create through CU-WISE. There are a lot of very interesting opportunities out there such as Go ENG Girl, Design Tomorrow's World, Let's Talk Science, and The Ottawa Science Fair.
- Try Engineering is an international website about engineering: explore what it's like to be an engineering, ask experts, search universities, and find approved lesson plans.
- Advice for undergraduate students is a document I wrote that can give you an idea about the challenges of studying science or engineering. I also wrote a blog about it.
- Blog about my journey from high school to grad school.
- Nerd Girls is a global movement which celebrates smart-girl individuality
- GirlGeeks is an online community with for women interested in technology including discussion forums, news, scholarships, etc.
- Inventive Women is a website all about Canadian women who invented everything from chocolate chip cookies to computer programs.
- Dilbert the engineer video (funny) and the BigDog Quadruped Robot video (stunning)
- Skills Canada is an organization that promotes careers in technologies to Canadian youth. They have some pretty cool competitions too.
- IEEE has a program called TISP (Teacher In-Service Program) which provides educational activity plans for pre-university educators to increase technological literacy. Please don't hesitate to contact TISP if you think your teacher would be interested in being involved in the program. There's also the K-12 Computer Science Teachers portal for teachers, university faculty, and industry practitioners as well as the Saturday Academy based in Oregon.