STEMScience, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
2: Engage girls and young women in STEM primary and secondary education, as well as in technical and vocational education and training
Promote S&E vocations to underrepresented (girls and young women), including by stimulating interest, fostering in-depth knowledge about S&E career issues, and presenting role models.
Promote workshops that develop females confidence and 'other skills (leadership, communication, and critical thinking)
Promote networks of female students (high school)
girls
CAGIS (Canadian Association for Girls in Science) is a network of girls, aged 7-16, who like science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and want to learn more. CAGIS promotes, educates and supports interest and confidence in STEM among girls. CAGIS chapter members meet monthly to explore STEM with fun, hands-on activities led by women and men who have chosen careers in science and technology fields. Since CAGIS is for girls by girls, members are encouraged to take an active role in the development of their own club by voicing their opinions, exploring their interests, writing for the newsletter, writing for New Moon Magazine, and helping to organize the regular chapter events. There are opportunities to talk about school, careers, and other issues that concern girls when they think about their futures. There is also lots of time for fun! CAGIS is very broad in its definition of STEM, holding events as diverse as the physics of music, or the chemistry of cooking, to let its members know that science is everywhere.