Women* helping women*

Women* supporting women* is the key to our success and identity in STEM

By: Kitty Cheung, Staff Writer Author’s Note: The asterisks (*) have been included by the writer, as organizers of nwPlus UBC have, in order to “specifically and intentionally include cis and trans women, as well as non-binary, agender and intersex people” in their definition of women. I found my high school science department to be uninspiring, to say the least. At this critical point in adolescence and education, whatever I was learning in science classes in the poor way it was taught deterred me from wanting to pursue science further. When a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) club was founded…

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