MOMENTUM! Mentorship creates opportunities for everybody!

MOMENTUM! Mentorship creates opportunities for everybody!

Wel­come to Mon­day Momen­tum! I’m Gabrielle Bir­chak. I love physics, and one of the things that fas­ci­nates me is momen­tum, how things actu­al­ly move for­ward, whether it’s a fly­wheel, a steam engine, or a chain of gears. Noth­ing gets going with­out it. Life works the same way: ideas, skills, and oppor­tu­ni­ties don’t move for­ward unless momen­tum is cre­at­ed, pushed, pulled,

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Empowering the Next Generation: Irene Duah-Kessie on Rise In STEM

Empowering the Next Generation: Irene Duah-Kessie on Rise In STEM

🔎 Episode Overview In this spe­cial Pod­casthon Week episode of Math Sci­ence His­to­ry, I sit down with Irene Duah-Kessie, the founder and exec­u­tive direc­tor of Rise In STEM (RiseinSTEM.ca). Rise In STEM is a non­prof­it ded­i­cat­ed to cre­at­ing oppor­tu­ni­ties for under­rep­re­sent­ed stu­dents in sci­ence, tech­nol­o­gy, engi­neer­ing, and math­e­mat­ics. Irene shares her inspir­ing jour­ney, the impact of men­tor­ship, and how her

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