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This website is dedicated to the activities of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (Atlantic Region). Dr. Tamara Franz-Odendaal, Associate Professor in Biology at Mount Saint Vincent University, is the NSERC Atlantic Chair for 2011-2015. The NSERC awards five chair holders across Canada for a five year term.

The primary goal of WISE Atlantic is to encourage young women to consider careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and to consider themselves as valuable potential contributors to these fields.

Please click here to read the key objectives for WISE Atlantic.

Read the first edition of WISE Atlantic's quarterly newsletter
for April 2012.


Tamara and her role model team

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Registration is now open! WISE Atlantic is hosting GIRLS GET WISE Science Retreat for junior and high school girls on May 26th at The Mount and a Summer Camp from August 13 - 17, 2012. Visit the Student Page for information on registration.

Free Community Teen Session:
Date: May 23, 2012
Time: 7 - 8 p.m.
Where: Woodlawn Public Library, 31 Eisener Blvd. Dartmouth
What: Meet role models in marine biology, IT, and Civil Engineering and ask questions!

Next webinar June 11th (time tba) 20 careers in 60 minutes. Send as your career of interest and we will find a role model to match.

Becoming Leaders Workshop, Mount Saint Vincent University, May 30th, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A professional development leadership workshop for women Engineers, Scientists and Technologists. For more information please call 457-6294 or download the registration form to return with cheque to WISE Altantic.

May 17 WISE atlantic at Techsploration Conference in Truro

May 15 Dr Tamara Franz-Odendaal judges at the National Science Fair in PEI

May 3-5 We had a full house at our session at the CCWESTT conference.

16 April Webinar to learn about the different engineering disciplines with role models in Civil, Environmental, Mechanical & Chemical Engineering.

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