25 Nov 2021
#STEM4Every1, #STEMingUP, #STEMingUPPartnerFeature, Blog, Dev Degree, STEM Spark, Success, Volunteers

Want to join our awesome team?

If you ever thought about making an impact and break barriers for girls and young womxn in STEM, and want to give back, we’d love to meet you. 

Check out some of the volunteering opportunities we have available and we hope you apply! Click on any of the images below to learn more about volunteering opportunities with us! 

In other news…

1. Remember to apply to the 2022 Dev Degree cohort before the deadline:

  • December 13th, 2021 is the deadline for early consideration for the 2022 cohort. Applications submitted on, or before the 13th will receive priority review.
  • February 13th, 2022 is the final deadline to apply for the 2022 Dev Degree cohort.

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3. Personal Statement

Tell us cool things about who you are, what you’re passionate about, and why you’re interested in Dev Degree and computer science.

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10 Aug 2020
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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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25 Jan 2020
#STEM4Every1, #STEMingUP, #STEMingUPPartnerFeature, Girls in STEM, Success

STEMing UP business challenge partnerships, the future of work, today

While almost 50% of the labor market are women, there’s only 28% of women in STEM fields in contrast to 72% of men.

Fewer than 4% are Latinas, and less than 3% are black. 

Only 1 out of 20 employed scientists and engineers are black women or Latinas.

This is not to say that women have less interests in STEM fields. Numerous studies show that women are more than capable of working in STEM fields and we can confidently say that, young women who are facing multiple barriers have a high interest in becoming the future of work. The question, however, remains: “What can we do differently to inspire more young, diverse women to explore STEM fields as a future career?”

One way we have been doing this is through developing programs that are inclusive and exciting in addition to real-life experiences for the young women who have joined us throughout the years in our programs. In the past, our young participants have had the opportunity to meet women professionals who shared their experiences in terms of what they love and what they love to see change in STEM fields. The honesty, warmth, and transparency that the women working in these fields have shared have been instrumental in our student’s success. More

27 Aug 2018
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STEMing UP Partner Feature, Issa Paez of Citrix Canada

At Citrix, we believe that a well-educated workforce provides opportunities for young people and helps our economy grow.  Additionally, we believe that companies that employ more women and have women in leadership roles outperform companies who don’t, and that’s why we support programs that work towards increasing women representation in the workplace especially in STEM fields.

Did you have a mentor growing up? If so, how did you find them and how old were you? 

I did not have a mentor growing up; however, I did find a few mentors during my career that coached and helped me develop personally and professionally.  There were individuals in my workplace that I admired because of their wisdom and knowledge, and I wished to learn from them.  I took it upon myself to ask them if they would take me as their mentee, impart some of their knowledge, and guide me through my professional career.  I encourage you to reach out to someone you admire and want to learn more from, and that person will gladly take you as his or her mentee.

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