On November 10, 2021, we hosted our 2nd STEMing UP Speaker Series and, in collaboration with Scholarship Canada and Yconic, we brought you an event to support you with your scholarship applications.

Check out the recordings from the event below and don’t forget to enter for your chance to win a $200 hEr VOLUTION STEMing UP Scholarship. 

Chance to Win a $200 hEr VOLUTION STEMing UP Scholarship!

Eligibility: Must be a student in good standing at a high school / secondary school, college or university in Canada (excluding Quebec). Minimum of 14 years of age or older as of the date of entry.  *Only one entry per student.

Entry Deadline: December 15th, 2021, 11:59 PM ET

Random Draw: December 16th, 2021, 2:00 PM ET

Enter here -> https://bit.ly/200stemingup

The hEr VOLUTION Ambassador Program is an exciting opportunity for young women to demonstrate STEM promotion and passion for improving gender equity in STEM. As an ambassador, you will create new opportunities for students, alumni, and STEM industry related companies to get involved with hEr VOLUTION. This program is a great way to enhance your leadership skills, learn more about STEM, and build a strong network of professionals.

You will work closely with your team to plan and execute various campaigns to help elevate the benefits of STEM for young womxn who are facing multiple barriers to entry a career in STEM.

Who can apply:

• Students or young professionals aged 17-25 interested in or pursuing a career in STEM
• Those able to commit to 1-3 years as an Ambassador
• Those currently residing in Ontario, Canada
• Former hEr VOLUTION students are encouraged to apply

Why participate:

• Work towards ending the gender gap in STEM
• Ongoing opportunities to network with professionals in STEM fields
• Develop professional skills to help achieve career goals
• Build your professional network
• Free access to numerous events
• Receive mentorship from women working in STEM
• Develop and strengthen your leadership skills
• Learn new things and meet new people

If you missed our info sessions for the STEMing UP program, no worries, we are pleased to share them with you below. 

Some exciting news to know about before you apply:

• For the first time ever, we will be extending the program for students so that they can work on their projects beyond the program. The program will be divided into 2 phases and the timing is for Phase 1 – July 26, 2021, to August 20, 2021, and for Phase 2 – September 13, 2021, to December 23, 2021
• The reason why we are doing this is that we heard numerous students asking for an extension to their learning in the program and some have worked on their own to finish their projects for extra learning opportunities. One of our goals has always been to provide participants with the opportunity to extend their skills and work on their projects from the beginning to the end. With that, they will have an extra valuable skill to add to their resume to support their post-secondary education and scholarship applications and when they are ready to start, this will help them with their career journey. 
• What does this mean? The participants will have the opportunity to work beyond the program for a couple of extra months to finalize their projects. Each team from each cohort will be assigned a business challenge and they will engage in a “healthy” competition with each other. At the end of 4 weeks, the challenge partner along with a panel of judges will select the winning solution from each team. That means that the winning solution is selected to be finalized, however, the other team can join and they, too, can work with a team of experts and learn just as much from them. 

Before you take the time to check out the sessions, we’d like to remind you that we are here to answer any questions you may have about the application. Please shoot us an email at stemingup@hervolution.org 

As with all of our programs, we aim to inspire more young women to get involved in STEM careers, especially those from underserved areas who may not have access to these resources. With that in mind, we developed our STEMing UP Program, to help equip young women with the confidence, skills, professional portfolios and networks to pursue fulfilling careers in the STEM industries. 

What is STEMing UP: 

*A safe space for young women to learn computer science and decision-making skills 
*Project-based assignments in order to develop and produce a portfolio of work 
*Mentorship on a portfolio, college application process and/or financial aid 
*Information around and exposure to the York University + Shopify Dev Degree Program 
*Networking and mentorship opportunities with educators, industry professionals, and employers 
*A peer-support network that will build confidence, friendship, and learning momentum

In order to do that, we need industry support. Young women in the past, have voiced that they are really interested in having industry professionals facilitate the sessions to help them get the learning directly from people who do this type of work in their careers. So, to help facilitate that, we decided to be ambitious and have the program facilitated entirely by industry folks as such, we put a call out for volunteer facilitators/speakers to help me out. More