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Tech Week Grand Rapids offers unique experience for STEM students at Calvin

Jacob Westra, Sci-Tech Reporter
September 18, 2023

Tech Week Grand Rapids — a large multi-day event focused on technology and innovation in the Grand Rapids area — is starting this Monday and will span the entire week through Saturday, Sept. 23. The...

What is it like to be a woman in STEM at Calvin?

Seanna Johnson, Guest Writer
April 30, 2021

What it’s like being a woman in STEM at Calvin: saying the right answer, loudly, repeatedly to a group of guys and not being heard. I often feel as though someone found my magical mute button, clicked...

Are women treated differently at Calvin?

Carmela Sleva
April 7, 2017

I spent the four most formative years of my life, high school, at an all-girls Catholic school. My high school’s motto was simple: “educating women who make a difference.” I can’t really attest...

Calvin hosts new chapter of Girls Who Code

Bethany Cok
January 22, 2015

For a nation striving towards gender equality, the United States still has a surprisingly large gender gap between men and women in tech careers. Gender disparity in STEM fields (science, technology,...