The Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science (FEAS) dedicates significant resources to initiatives designed specifically to meet and engage community, industry, and alumni partners.

But not every community outreach initiative from Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Engineering is driven by the faculty.

Many initiatives, under the umbrella of the Engineering Society of Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s 카지노게임사이트 (EngSoc), have deep community, industry, and alumni connections. These are projects conceived, planned, and executed almost entirely by volunteer students.

One issue on which engineering students are working to affect positive change in the wider world is the gender imbalance in STEM fields, particularly in engineering. There are more students and faculty who are women in Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Engineering than ever before and more are coming every year. Still, only a little more than 30 per cent of first-year students are women, and women account for only about 13 per cent of licensed engineers in Canada. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a complicated issue but getting girls and young women interested in STEM fields early is one of the keys to moving those numbers closer to parity.

is a student club that, among other things, runs youth outreach programs on campus and in primary and secondary schools around Kingston. The club카지노 게임 컬렉션�s activities are specifically designed to get girls interested in STEM before they start making decisions about what to do after high school. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s all about making opportunities for young people to see women as role models, not only for girls, but for boys, teachers, faculty, and for one another.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�We received an email from a parent whose child attended one of our school outreach programs,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s WiSE President, Beatrice Kaiser (Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션�18). 카지노 게임 컬렉션�Her daughter decided after our program that she wants to become a scientist. That카지노 게임 컬렉션�s impactful on me. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s just so exciting when you hear kids say, 카지노 게임 컬렉션�I want to be an engineer. I want to be scientist.카지노 게임 컬렉션�카지노 게임 컬렉션�

The is another growing student outreach program. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s one of more than 30 Robogals chapters around the world that aim to inspire young women into STEM fields through exposure to robotics. Here at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s, Robogals hosts a series of fun workshops in which local kids learn some robotics basics, just as first-year Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Engineering students do, with Lego EV3 robots. Some of the workshops are all-girls but many are co-educational.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�I was lucky that my parents encouraged me to pursue STEM early on,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Robogals Operations Manager, Heather Litwiller (Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션�18). 카지노 게임 컬렉션�But when I was in high school one of the reasons girls chose not to go into computing or physics was because they카지노 게임 컬렉션�re kind of isolating, solitary pursuits. You have to work on them by sitting at a desk by yourself. I love Robogals because it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s social. We give groups of girls robots and laptops and they카지노 게임 컬렉션�re chatting, laughing, working together. STEM becomes a way for them to make friends while at the same time seeing future career options.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

Both WiSE and Robogals liaise regularly with STEM education professionals in FEAS카지노 게임 컬렉션� full-time youth outreach operation, Connections.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�There카지노 게임 컬렉션�s a lot of new collaboration with , Scott Compeau,카지노 게임 컬렉션� Kaiser says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션�We share school contacts, support, equipment, and information, and we work together to ensure our programs don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t overlap to the point of redundancy.카지노 게임 컬렉션�

In the end, the students of WiSE and Robogals are working to tear down barriers to entry in STEM fields, not to create new ones or to foment division. Perhaps the best outcome will be that gender becomes irrelevant to academic or aspirational potential in STEM.

카지노 게임 컬렉션�Our main mission is to get more women involved in STEM,카지노 게임 컬렉션� says Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션�s Robogals President, Madeline MacLean (Sc카지노 게임 컬렉션�18). 카지노 게임 컬렉션�We don카지노 게임 컬렉션�t exclude boys. We have guys on our executive every year and it카지노 게임 컬렉션�s important for guys to be welcome here. It카지노 게임 컬렉션�s almost a solidarity thing.

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