Mechanical Engineering Grad & Geering Up Instructor Named 2024 Rhodes Scholar
Phoebe Cheung, a UBC mechanical engineering graduate and former Geering Up team member, has been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship for this year. One of eleven recipients across all of Canada—and the only recipient in British Columbia—Phoebe will pursue a fully funded DPhil in engineering science, with a focus on biomedical engineering and assistive technologies, […]
Geering Up Earns IEEE’s EAB Vice President’s Award
From B.C. to D.C. (Washington, that is!), Geering Up is making strides in the world of barrier-free STEM education. On the evening of November 17, 2023, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)’s Vice President of Educational Activities, Dr. Rabab Ward, presented Geering Up with the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)’s 2023 Vice President’s […]
From Curious Chaos to Representation in Robotics: Coralie Tcheune
From Curious Chaos to Representation in Robotics: Coralie Tcheune As a young child, Cansbridge Fellow and Biomedical Engineering student Coralie Tcheune looked up to 3 scientists: her mother (a Computer Science major), her father (who held a Master’s in Applied Mathematics), and Doc Brown (inventor extraordinaire from Back to the Future) blazed the trail for […]
UBC Geering Up wins Actua Award for Excellence
Breaking barriers. Instilling passion in STEM. Investing in youth. From Geering Up’s beginnings in 1995 as Mechanical Engineering student Christine Yeung’s capstone project, those are the values that have driven every single decision we’ve made and how we’ve grown as an organization. That is why we’re pleased to announce that our national network partner, Actua, […]
