Join us on May 5th, 2017 at the Fort Garry Hotel for MCWESTT 2017: a local, one-day conference dedicated to connecting women in engineering, science, trades, and technology, and empowering them to Create, Foster, and Lead.

Our Master of Ceremonies for the day will be Winnipeg based comedian Dana Smith, who runs the successful Women's Open Mic show at Jekyll & Hyde's and is a member of the sketch group H.U.N.K.S. (5 STARS - Winnipeg Free Press).

MCWESTT 2017 is proud to feature the following keynote speakers:

* Susan Auch, three-time Olympic medalist from Winnipeg, MB * Shari Graydon, award-winning author, advocate, and speaker * Sarah Neville, communication expert and acclaimed speaker

Register before Friday, March 10th to receive the limited-time early bird pricinghttps://apps.apegm.mb.ca/MCWESTT2017Registration.aspx.

For the first time ever, MCWESTT 2017 is offering a full day pre-conference workshop on Thursday, May 4th, 2017! The WinSETT Effective Communicationhttp://hollettandsons.ca/winsett-leadership-program/ workshop will be facilitated by Edna Dach with guest speakers Trish Jordan and Dawn Nedohin-Macek. Thanks to the generous partnership of the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering - Prairies, this workshop is available at a significantly discounted rate of only $75, exclusively for our conference participants. Be sure to register early as the workshop is limited to only 30 participants.

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Annemieke Farenhorst, Ph.D., P.Ag. NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering - Prairie Region. Professor, Department of Soil Science, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences

NSERC CWSE-Prairies web-site: http://cwse-prairies.ca/ NSERC H2O CREATE web-site: http://create-h2o.ca/

Contact address: University of Manitoba 380 Ellis Building Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2 Tel: (204) 474 6858 FAX: (204) 474 7642 E-mail: annemieke.farenhorst@umanitoba.camailto:annemieke.farenhorst@umanitoba.ca