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On Août 17th, SCWIST hosted a life audit workshop with Habit and Health Coach Amritha Premasuthan. Amritha works with professionals who don’t find time for themselves. Or may have lost […]

On Juillet 25th, Jillian Climie and Sophie Warwick, co-founders of The Thoughtful Co., walked us through how to implement an Employee Resource Group (ERG), delivering an easy-to-follow action plan to […]

During the weekend of Juillet 9th and 10th, F3 Ventures welcomed 1000+ women to Web3 at F3STIVAL, a new iteration of the World Wide Web which incorporates concepts such as […]

On Juin 3, 2022, SCWIST welcomed more than 400 attendees and 18 organizations from across Canada to our virtual Annual Career Fair! Our day-long event, generously sponsored by STEMCELL Technologies, […]

Several members of the SCWIST leadership team were inspired by the opportunity to participate in Equal Futures 2022 along with over 220 attendees from gender equality organizations across Canada. SCWIST […]

Written by Ashley van der Pouw Kraan We all know mothers do a hundred different things for their families every day. They find time to play with the kids, finish […]

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 Mars 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 Mars 2020. Since the inaugural event in 1993, the […]

UBC Brown Bag Lunch Series: Make Possible Mentoring Network Workshop Date of Event: Mars 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: Mars 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 Septembre 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 Juillet 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 Juin 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 – Avril 12, 2014 It was a beautiful sunny day, 9 people signed up and 7 people attended; Joe and Pat volunteered their car for transporting […]