Events

For over 30 years the annual Wonder Women Networking Evening (WWNE) has been a cornerstone event for SCWIST. It’s been through various names and iterations. Yet, its purpose has remained the same: to bring in women in STEM for conversation and connection about thriving in their chosen fields.

For the past 15 weeks, young female scientists have been presenting their work to a panel of judges and onlookers at the SCWIST Science Symposium. The students, still completing their […]

Creating the SCWIST Science Symposium Dr. Noeen Malik was still completing her undergrad degree when she first had the idea for a Science Symposium for younger students. “When I was […]

Presentation by Martina Wan LockwoodWritten by Nusayba Sultana SCWIST’s Brown Bag events are an opportunity to ‘lunch and learn’ with professional women from a variety of STEM fields. Visit our […]

On March 11, 2021, SCWIST and Science World hosted the 30th annual Wonder Women Networking Evening—and this time: virtually! Networking in a pandemic: can it be done? Networking virtually: truly […]

Presentation by Cecilia Sierra-HerediaRecap by Nusayba Sultana SCWIST’s Brown Bag events are an opportunity to ‘lunch and learn’ with professional women from a variety of STEM fields. Visit our events […]

Presented by Ranjit DhariRecap by Ashley van der Pouw Kraan (@ashvdpk on Twitter) SCWIST’s Brown Bag events are an opportunity to ‘lunch and learn’ with professional women from a variety […]

SCWIST was extremely proud to host the 2020 Wonder Women Networking Evening, in collaboration with Science World in Vancouver, on 9 March 2020. Since the inaugural event in 1993, the […]

UBC Brown Bag Lunch Series: Make Possible Mentoring Network Workshop Date of Event: March 5, 2015 Speakers: Cheryl Kristiansen and Gwen Gnazdowsky SCWIST has launched its Make Possible Mentoring Network, part of […]

Putting Principles into Practice: Mentoring Coaching and Skills Workshop with Gwen Gnazdowsky & Cheryl Kristiansen Date of Event: Feb 25, 2015 Speakers: Cheryl Kristiansen and Gwen Gnazdowsky   In the […]

XX Evening 2015 Recap Thank You Letter From Event Organizer, Suzana Djordjevic-Stajic   This was my fourth year organizing the XX Evening, and this year, I had enormous help from […]

XX Evening 2015 Recap Date of Event: March 3, 2015 In partnership with Science World at TELUS World of Science, the Society for Canadian Women in Science and Technology hosted […]

Networking: How to Use It Successfully to Further Your Career Date of Event: Feb 12, 2015 Speaker: Dr. Grace Lee, a successful entrepreneur and academic Networking is an important aspect […]

On September 24th, 2014, IWIS organized an event in partnership with Back in Motion, and Simon Fraser University at the Surrey campus of SFU. While the seats were all sold […]

On July 10 2014, IWIS held another event focusing on sharing tips to achieve career success in BC as well as providing information to newcomers and graduate students. About 25 […]

Close to 50 people including new and existing members and founders attended the SCWIST AGM on June 18. It was a night of sharing as Rosine, our past President, started […]

How can each of us celebrate our heritage in Canada’s multicultural environment? This is the question that our speaker, Lorraine Graves, answered in the 5th IWIS event of the year […]

Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup – April 12, 2014 It was a beautiful sunny day, 9 people signed up and 7 people attended; Joe and Pat volunteered their car for transporting […]

On May 8 2014, we were fortunate enough to have Katarina Rothe as our moderator for this Café Scientifique. Katharina is a PhD candidate at the Terry Fox Laboratory at […]

On April 3 2014, IWIS hosted the third Cafe Scientifique to discuss the risks factors and preventive strategies of cancer. Our first speaker was Dr. Carolyn Gotay, who is a […]

XX Event 2014 Recap It was my great pleasure to organize XX Evening 2014, an evening of networking and dynamic discussion, for women studying and working in science, engineering, and […]

Close your eyes; picture your ideal job environment. What do you see? Is it a multinational company or a startup? Listen to the sound around you; what do you hear? […]

The Chemistry of Beer, talk for laymen and scientist, by Ken Beattie, on January 20th this year, was an outstanding success. Everyone who attended raved about the facts they learned […]

On February 6 2014, IWIS hosted the second Cafe Scientifique to discuss the risk factors and preventive strategies of cardiovascular diseases. Dr. Gordon Francis, the Director at the Healthy Heart […]