09 Nov 2020
#GivingTuesdayCA, #STEM4Every1, Blog, Fundraising, Media, STEM Spark, Success

Thank you for your support so far. Let’s keep going with the #Unselfie!

It’s SO exciting to see that we already have your support. We’d like to say a heartfelt THANK YOU to you for encouraging others to support us on this journey.

Did you get to post your #Unselfie yet? No worries if you didn’t, we know these things may be intimidating for so many reasons and we are here to help. We can share your support on your behalf. All you have to do is send us your #Unselfie photo and we will share it on our social media channels on your behalf with a special thank you message. And, if you are sharing this on someone else’s behalf, be sure to let us know so we can tag them on social media and let them know in turn.

Thank you to everyone that donated, shared and supported us so far. Let’s keep the momentum going and please continue to donate, share your #Unselfie and support us unconditionally.

From all of us at hEr VOLUTION, Thank YOU again! 

03 Nov 2020
#STEM4Every1, #STEMingUP, Ambassadors, Awards, Blog, Contest, Girls in STEM, Media, STEM Spark, Success, Technology

Doina Oncel, Founder/CEO at hEr VOLUTION nominated for the #WomenTech Global Awards 2020!

For immediate release:

Toronto, ON Canada – November 3, 2020: Doina Oncel, Founder/CEO of hEr VOLUTION has been nominated for the #WomenTech Global Awards 2020, Women in Tech Ally of the Year Category.  Global Tech Woman Awards aims to celebrate 100 000 Women In Tech who are driving change with purpose and impact.

This award nomination is a great recognition for our Founder/CEO, Doina Oncel as she has been an ally for women in tech since the founding of hEr VOLUTION, back in 2013. Doina founded hEr VOLUTION to support young women from underserved communities from Ontario by proving them with access to STEM based education. Doina has made significant impact on about 4000 young women in STEM through direct and indirect programming and has developed partnership with various industry partners such as Shopify, Salesforce, Citrix Canada, Capital One, General Motors. Through her leadership the organization has received government funding from Ontario Trillium Foundation, Government of Canada and  Leacross Foundation to name a few.

“I am extremely grateful for this nomination and I truly hope that it inspires others to join this movement with us in becoming allies with me and help make STEM education accessible to all.” says Doina Oncel, Founder/CEO of hEr VOLUTION

To support this nomination, we invite you to visit the nomination page HERE and vote by sharing with your network. Your votes for this nomination will help inspire young women to embrace careers in STEM.

About hEr VOLUTION

hEr VOLUTION is an award-winning charitable organization providing innovative education and employment services to girls and young women in STEM. Our 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.

For more information, visit www.hervolution.org

For interview requests for or quotes from hEr VOLUTION contact:

mediarelations@hervolution.org

www.hervolution.org

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23 Oct 2020
#STEMingUP, #STEMingUPSpotlight, Blog, Dev Degree, Girls in STEM, Media, Science, STEM Spark, STEMingUPSpotlight, Success, Technology

STEMing UP 2020 Program Analysis Report

“It is our mission to inspire young women to invest in and aspire for STEM careers, especially those from underserved areas who may not have access to all necessary resources”

  • STEMing UP Program was developed in 2018 based on the needs identified by former program participants who were looking for programs that will strategically introduce them to career opportunities in STEM and business fields.  In 2020 we served 30 young women in the program and pivoted to virtual learning due to COVID-19.

 

  • Graduate students in this program gained major technological and business skills supporting them to successfully integrate in university courses such as Business and Technology at Ryerson University, Computer Science at Carleton University,  University of Toronto and York University and acceptance in programs such as Shopify’s Dev Degree. Furthermore, students in this program gained employment and paid internships in distinguished institutions such as Shopify, BMO and RBC to name a few.

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24 Sep 2020
#STEM4Every1, #STEMingUP, #STEMingUPSpotlight, Blog, Girls in STEM, STEM Spark, STEMingUPSpotlight, Success, Technology

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demos (JavaScript Cohort)

How did you enjoy the project demos from the Python cohort that we sent last week? We included another treat for you in this email below. Please check out the project demos from this year’s STEMing UP JavaScript cohort. Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to stay informed of all of our updates (we don’t always share them on here)

 

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demo – ChatEasy

STEMing UP 2020 – JavaScript Group 2 presenting their solution to this year’s COVID-19 challenge “Care for our Seniors”

 

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demo – Fit2getThere

STEMing UP 2020 – JavaScript Group 1 presenting their solution to this year’s COVID-19 challenge “Youth Mental Health In Pandemic/Crisis”

 

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demo – Unwind Your Mind

STEMing UP 2020 – JavaScript Group 3 presenting their solution to this year’s COVID-19 challenge “Care for our Seniors”

17 Sep 2020
#STEMingUP, #STEMingUPSpotlight, Girls in STEM, STEM Spark, STEMingUPSpotlight, Success, Technology

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demos (Python Cohort)

Before we start sharing the demos from this year’s program, we’d like to say a huge “Thank You” to our students who have been committed to this year’s STEMing UP Program. It has been challenging, indeed, however, these young women have given their all to participate in the program despite the challenges that they faced, i.e. lack of human contact and having to navigate online learning shortly after having to deal with a pandemic.

We’d also like to thank our partners who have committed to supporting us with this program during these unprecedented times.

  • Thank you to Shopify and Slack for your financial contribution as well as sharing resources such as coaches for the program.
  • Thank you to Citrix Canada, MongoDB, and Alexio Corporation for the continuous support, financial, and speaker contribution.
  • Thank you to Konrad Group for the financial contribution and to Humber College for continuing to support in terms of higher education.
  • We couldn’t forget Shopify’s Dev Degree Program, which has been a catalyst in supporting our students to benefit from a co-op program in computer science like no other

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demo-Re:Care Team

STEMing UP 2020 – Python Group 3 presenting their solution to this year’s

COVID-19 challenge “Frontline Workers Support”

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demo – Senior Society

STEMing UP 2020 – Python Group 2 presenting their solution to this year’s
COVID-19 challenge “Care for our Seniors”

STEMing UP 2020 Project Demo – CareOnClick

STEMing UP 2020 – Python Group 1 presenting their solution to this year’s

COVID-19 challenge “Frontline Workers Support”

10 Aug 2020
#STEM4Every1, #STEMingUP, #STEMingUPPartnerFeature, #STEMingUPSpotlight, Media, STEM Spark, STEMingUPSpotlight, Success, Technology

How #STEMingUP Students & Mentors Worked Together to Complete Their Program Challenge

STEMing UP Program is known for training young women for a post secondary education and a career in technology. However, one other focus, and an equally important one, is to create opportunities for the young women participants to start a portfolio of work. For some of these young women this is their very first opportunity to do so. 

The portfolio of work can be anything that the girls have worked on in the program based on the challenges brought on by a real business that we work with in order to create these real life work experience opportunities for our program participants. It can be anything from an app to a website. 

The key ingredients in making this experience a success are the mentors who are giving their time and expertise to train the young women every step of the way. The mentors have met with these young women at least once per week to help them develop a website for a woman led business that we identified as a business challenge in the 2019 STEMing UP Program. 

Since we are getting closer to the end of the STEMing UP Program this year, we want to take this opportunity to highlight the experiences that the participants from 2019 program have had during this project creation as well as their biggest support, their mentors. 

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