hEr VOLUTION’s 2021 Newsletter
hEr VOLUTION 2021 Newsletter by hEr VOLUTION
hEr VOLUTION presents: “#Impact2020 Actioning Your Career Vision” online webinar
For immediate release
Toronto – March 23, 2020 – The global pandemic due to COVID-19 is disrupting how we deliver educational materials for students, particularly young women who are looking to start their careers in STEM. To alleviate that, hEr VOLUTION is hosting a special online webinar on Monday, March 30, 2020, at 1:00 and 6:00 p.m. called #Impact2020: Actioning Your Career Vision. This webinar is dedicated to supporting high school and post-secondary young women looking to start their journey in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) industries.
hEr VOLUTION was scheduled to host their fist #Impact2020 STEM Career Fair for Girls, however, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, strategic measures were taken and the career fair was canceled as consideration of the health and safety of its community members, including students, volunteers, and community partners.
This #Impact2020: Actioning Your Career Vision event was made possible by the support of NEM Ontario, an organization supporting post-secondary students and professionals at all stages in their career to navigate increasingly rapid changes within engineering and technology.
“We understand that these are trying times for everyone, and this is why we are happy to have partnered with NEM Ontario and Shannon M. Pole Solutions to deliver alternative career support hosted online. We do this to continue to support girls, despite today’s uncertainties” says, Doina Oncel, Founder/CEO of hEr VOLUTION
Special guest, Shannon M. Pole, Head of International Training Institute of NLP & Hypnosis, will be leading the webinar. Combining her engineering background with her career coaching expertise, participants will learn how to focus on their career vision, reach for opportunities, obtain their goals and achieve success in their STEM career.
Date: Monday, March 23, 2020
Time: 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Location: Online Webinar
Registration for this FREE event: https://bit.ly/3dfNFmh
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About hEr VOLUTION
Inspiring girls to embrace STEM careers, hEr VOLUTION’s mission is to advance education by providing workshops and instructional seminars on topics relating to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) for low income and marginalized youth with a focus on girls and young women.
https://www.hervolution.org
Contact information:
Doina Oncel
mediarelations@hervolution.org
Celebrate your success in competitive professional landscapes despite self-doubt #NEM2020
By Helena Mendez from the presentation given at the Diversity in Construction & Engineering – Women in Leadership on March 2019
“Doubt kills more dreams than failure will ever will” Suzy Kassem
I am here to tell you a story that talks about the limitations that we create around our pursuit of professional success and the importance of understanding what we are doing to celebrate our accomplishments.
The story is about myself: I was born and raised in Venezuela, a beautiful country that is, unfortunately, facing a very difficult political, social and economic crisis, but that is a topic to cover on another occasion. I just wanted to make you aware that I am indeed an immigrant in case you find grammar spellings, know that I am doing my best.
My life there was simple. I was a regular girl who loved daydreaming. My dad used to tell me that I was always distracted imagining things that may never happen and that I needed to concentrate more if I wanted to achieve big goals. Despite what it was perceived as lack of attention I managed to become one of the top students at the end of my senior year in high school, to the point of being selected to give the speech on our graduation day. I remember not understanding why I had been chosen. Out of at least 5 top female students, WHY ME?. That was the first time that I met my Inner Critic More
Who is behind our camps? #STEMCamps
Wow, look how far we’ve come!
It has been an exciting couple of weeks and we are SO grateful for your support.
The proverb goes: If you want to go fast, go alone. if you want to go far, go together. We are going far and we will go together. With that said, let us introduce to you some of the people behind our summer camps. This week we will introduce you to Luiza Curzio.
Luiza is a Civil Engineering graduate who loves to travel and meeting new people. She is passionate about civil engineering and STEM careers. She wants to make a positive impact on young girls lives and show them that they can be anything they want.
This summer Luiza was a camp coordinator for our Engineering camp. She was responsible for integrating science and engineering to activities while engaging with the youth. She also managed the attendance and monitored the youth throughout the day during the camp.
When asked “What should people expect from camp?” she responded: People should expect a very respectable and professional camp that promotes STEM careers as future career options for youths through fun activities and visits from current professionals.
If you would like to further connect with Luiza you can find her on LinkedIn.
Looking back on last week of our #STEMCamps
The past week has been exciting for many reasons, including this year’s first week of camp!
We wanted to share the learning and adventures from camp with you through the photos below.
Stay tuned for more updates on this week’s camps!
We’re very excited to see what this new week of camps will bring!
Behind the scenes of our STEM Summer Programs. Meet Stella
Ah-maz-ing!
It has been an exciting couple of weeks and we are SO grateful for your support. THANK YOU to our donors so far!
With your help, we were able to raise a total of $ 395, with this we will include 2 kids in our camps!
If you haven’t donated yet and wish to, please see the link to our gofund.me page here http://bit.ly/GOFundMe2019
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”
We are going far and we will go together. With that said, let us introduce to you some of the people behind our summer camps. This week we will introduce you to Stella. More