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MAR. 7: High school students get the chance to sample coding, build satellite stations and more, inform J. Latimer, Concordia University.

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Take a coding workshop with a Google employee. Or learn about supply chain from an expert at Deloitte.

In honour of International Women’s Day, the Concordia chapter of Women in Engineering (WIE) is holding the second WIE Inspire WIE Empower conference the day before, on March 7.

The gathering is exclusively for high school girls considering studying environmental, mechanical, software, chemical or any of the engineering specialties in the field. The free event, capped at 100 students, filled up in one week, but there is a waiting list.

“We’re excited to expose girls to different types of engineering,” says Riya Dutta, president of WIE, which is housed in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science...

“We hope that this will allow young female students to envision themselves studying and working in STEM fields and to realize their huge potential for making a lasting impact on our world,” Clarke says.
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Source: Concordia University News