H.R.MACMILLAN SPACE CENTER
June 16, 1963, cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova climbed
into the Vostok 6 Soviet space craft
on her way to becoming the first woman in space.
In honour of this event, we present
Women in Science
Inspiring
tomorrow’s leaders
May 9, 7 pm - Finding Your Path to Engineering and Science: From
Taxidermy to Robots - Maxime Chin
Animal Biology Mechanical Engineering: two different degrees, one successful path
Maxime
Chin is a UBC graduate who will begin her career with Shell in May 2013 as a
production engineer.
June
13, 7pm – Transforming
Human-Robot Interaction - Dr. Elizabeth Croft
Finding
ways to help humans and robots to work together.
Dr. Croft is a professor
at UBC; NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering, BC-Yukon at UBC; and
leader of the WWEST program for women in engineering, science and
technology.
Enter to win:
May 9- two tickets to the keynote speech by Dr. Roberta Bondar, Canada’s first
female astronaut, (May 11, 9:00 am) at the Creating
Connections conference
June 13 – special private tour of the TRIUMF facility at UBC, TRIUMF is one of the
world’s leading subatomic physics laboratories.
All sessions will be at the H.R. MacMillan Space
Centre
7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30)
