We’re dedicated to building authentic, confident, decisive and resilient girls and women.
Empowering them to lead from within and use their voices to empower themselves and their communities.
Our focus is building self-confidence, communications, and leadership skills in a supportive and learning environment.
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Our Audience
Middle School
High School & University
Women in the Workforce
What’s the need?
Girls and women are underrepresented in STEM fields, leadership positions, and founders of new start-ups.
This underrepresentation of women in decision-making roles negatively impacts the labour force in our province. By building up these girls, we’re building a cohort of young scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, computer science, or business professionals who can bring a different type of competency, knowledge and understanding to these fields. More voices mean better solutions.
To bridge this gap, more young girls and women need to be encouraged and given the same opportunities to pursue these male dominated fields.
Women are significantly underrepresented in STEM fields and account for approximately 25% of today’s workforce in these fields
Globally, about 9% of leadership positions in STEM are held by women
The likelihood of a girl enrolled in grade 1 in Canada going on to receive a PhD in the sciences or engineering is approximately 1 in 225 (NSERC, 2017)
Women accounted for just 39% of university graduates aged 25 to 34 with a STEM degree, compared to 66% of graduate in non-STEM programs (Statistics Canada, 2015)
There has never been a better time to be a girl.
UP+GO will spark new conversations, training and mentorship opportunities to close the gap. One of the reasons that women struggle in achieving leadership positions is that they lack role models and mentors. We cannot allow girls to be discouraged to enter male dominated fields of study, especially when their opportunities are greater than ever before simply because they are unaware of the vast opportunities our province has to offer. The UP+GO girls will see stories of role models both men and women in our region, they will experience these stories, and in turn will create their own. It is our time to act and we have the people dedicated to doing exactly that.
We cultivate the next generation of female leaders who will join our STEM, business, government, not-for-profit, and social enterprises. Today’s Up+Go leaders will pay it forward to develop strong, assertive, and confident women in Atlantic Canada and beyond.
Our programs, online content, workshops & mentorship focus on building skills in the following areas:
