Lakehead University hosting Go Eng Girl
October 15, 2014 – Thunder Bay, ON
Lakehead University hosts the 10th annual Go ENG Girl, a free event encouraging girls in grades 7 and up, and their parents to meet engineering alumna, faculty and students and enjoy hands-on activities as they learn about current programs of study and careers in engineering.
This year’s Go Eng Girl will be held at Lakehead University’s Thunder Bay campus on Saturday, Oct. 18 from 9 am to 3 pm.
At GO ENG Girl, sponsored by Ontario's 16 Faculties of Engineering & the Ontario Network of Women in Engineering (ONWiE), participants experience the creativity, imagination and teamwork involved in engineering design.
Please visit Lakehead’s Faculty of Engineering web page (http://engineering.lakeheadu.ca/) for more information. Advance registration is required. To register, please visit www.onwie.ca.
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Media: For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media Relations Officer, at (807) 343-8177, or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca, or contact Heather Moynihan in the Faculty of Engineering at 766-7148 or heather.moynihan@lakeheadu.ca.
In 2015, Lakehead University will celebrate 50 years of exceptional education. Guided by a new Strategic Plan (2013-2018), our University is known for providing an education focused on independent thinking, unconventional scholarship, and a close sense of community. About 9,700 students and 2,000 faculty and staff learn and work in ten faculties at two campuses, in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead University is a fully comprehensive university: home to Ontario’s first new Faculty of Law in 44 years, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, and Faculties of Engineering, Business Administration, Health and Behavioural Sciences, Social Sciences and Humanities, Science and Environmental Studies, Natural Resources Management, Education and Graduate Studies. Lakehead is among Canada’s Top 10 undergraduate universities (2014 Maclean’s University Rankings), as well as 1st in Ontario and 2nd in Canada for its innovative research (Re$earch Infosource). Visit http://www.lakeheadu.ca.