Hey guys, welcome back to another blog! Today’s blog is all about my mini trip to the Girls in STEM Conference at the University of Toronto. Girls in STEM is an event where girls in grades 4 to 8 learn about topics like nursing, rocketry, bioethics, and bioinformatics.
The two workshops I enrolled in were Nursing and Bioinformatics. Now let’s begin with my schedule. In the morning, we had our introduction in a really big university classroom from 9:45 to 10:00 AM.
My first class was Nursing where we were put into groups of two and had to do checkups on each other. It was really cool because we got a stethoscope to keep and they actually work pretty well! We also learned about triage. The example they gave was if there was a bus crash and you were the only person not hurt, you would sort people by red for immediate, yellow for delayed, green for minimal, and black for deceased.
After Nursing, we had lunch in the main classroom for about 30 minutes. Then for my second class we had Bioinformatics where they talked about how AI thinks. First it takes inputs, then the data goes through an algorithm, and finally it produces an output.
Out of the two topics, my favorite was Nursing because we got to do two really fun activities and I loved that we were able to keep freebies to bring home as a memory! That was my day at the U of T Girls in STEM Conference, see you guys in the next blog!
