More than 120 young women will attend the 8th annual Go ENG Girl at the University of Waterloo this Saturday.
More than 120 young women interested in learning about rewarding career opportunities in engineering will attend the 8th annual Go ENG Girl at the University of Waterloo this Saturday.
The event for girls in Grades 7 to 10 and their parents is part of a provincial initiative to spark interest in engineering at a time when girls are beginning to think about their future careers and choosing courses that will prepare them. On the same day, 14 other universities across Ontario will also hold Go ENG Girl activities for more than 1,000 girls and their parents.
“Go ENG Girl provides an exceptional opportunity to explore first-hand the exciting and diverse fields of engineering through meeting inspirational young women studying at Waterloo and our alumni who are excelling as professional engineers,” said Professor Pearl Sullivan, dean of engineering at Waterloo.
The Ontario Network of Women in Engineering (ONWiE) supports this initiative. Professor Mary Wells, associate dean of outreach for engineering and professor of mechanical and mechatronics engineering at Waterloo is the chair of ONWiE.
“This event showcases the broad range of amazing possibilities an education in engineering can offer women,” said Professor Wells. “Parents also become aware of the importance of their daughters continuing to study mathematics and sciences in high school to ensure options are kept open for university.”
The girls and their parents will have separate programming for most of the day. Parents will hear from a graduate of Waterloo engineering, and attend a panel discussion of parents of current students. The girls will try fun and complex engineering tasks while mingling with current students who provide guidance and act as role models.
“This interaction helps the girls envision themselves as future engineering students, and the entertaining activities are a great example of how hands-on learning influences success,” said Professor Wells.
The event begins at 9 a.m. on Saturday, October 19. Registration is now closed. For more information, please visit https://uwaterloo.ca/engineering/events/go-eng-girl.
In just half a century, the University of Waterloo, located at the heart of Canada's technology hub, has become one of Canada's leading comprehensive universities with 35,000 full- and part-time students in undergraduate and graduate programs. Waterloo, as home to the world's largest post-secondary co-operative education program, embraces its connections to the world and encourages enterprising partnerships in learning, research and discovery. In the next decade, the university is committed to building a better future for Canada and the world by championing innovation and collaboration to create solutions relevant to the needs of today and tomorrow. For more information about Waterloo, please visit www.uwaterloo.ca.
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