the university of waterloo has been recognized as the most innovative university in canada for more than two decades and it makes sense to direct our innovative spirit toward the challenge of encouraging girls and women to enter and ultimately thrive in stem fields the european parliament is forecasting about seven million new stem jobs by in europe alone and so we believe it is critical to empower those who identify as girls and women to enter these rewarding careers not only for their personal development but also for the betterment of society we have hosted stem outreach experiences for more than years through our engineering science quest esq camps