12 Mar 2020
#STEM4Every1, Girls in STEM, NEM2020, PEngDay, STEM Spark, Success, Women In STEM Conference

#Impact2020 STEM Career Fair for Girls postponed; Career Fair Preparation Webinar to be hosted instead

In light of the developing health concerns around COVID-19 (coronavirus), we have had to make the hard decision and postpone the #Impact2020 STEM Career Fair for Girls for the time being. 

The health and safety of our community, partners, volunteers, and attendees is our main priority and although this decision was a hard one to make, we found it that it is the best decision to follow through at this time considering that the virus was classified as a pandemic. 

We would like to thank all of our supporters, Scotiabank Digital Factory, Matrix 360, General Motors Canada, NEM Ontario and Shannon M Pole for the support with this so far and we look forward to re-group and plan this fair or an event like it, once the safety of our community will not be a concern.

On the bright side of things, we are still going to continue with the Career Fair Preparation webinar with Shannon M. Pole. We are hopeful that this too shall pass and the learning must go on as such, we will be facilitating the webinar to help prepare you for your career in STEM as it is our mandate to support you in your career journey. 

We are grateful to Shannon M. Pole Solutions for facilitating this webinar and to NEM Ontario for continuing to support us in making this hard choice. 

The details to attend the webinar are as follows: 

Date: March 14, 2020 

Time: 10:00 AM 

Link to join the webinar: https://zoom.us/j/964672637

Meeting ID: 964 672 637

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Please do not hesitate to contact us via email at info@hervolution.org should you have any questions about this at all. 

Regards, 

hEr VOLUTION’s #Imapct2020 Team 

 

01 Mar 2020
#STEM4Every1, Blog, Engineering, IWD, Media, NEM2020, PEngDay, STEM Spark, Success

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