Workshops and Events

Beside mentorship program, Melius Mentorship Network offers free group workshops on several topics and events such as university tour. These workshops and events are open to everyone. To attend, please see registration links on the workshop/event page or on our social media BIO.
To see more up-coming activities, please visit our instagram page at @meliusmentorshipnetwork or click below.

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Past Workshops and Events

Lab Science Workshop: Introduction to Scientific Fields, Research, and Experiments
September 23rd, 2022

This workshop provided a glimpse into different scientific fields and the path to getting into graduate school, masters, and PhD programs. We offered to participants the opportunity to conduct a simple chemistry experiment under supervision of our mentors.

Law Workshop: Introduction to Law Fields
September 16th, 2022

This workshop provided information on how to pursue a law degree and become a lawyer, as well as presenting various career paths in Economics, Law and Political Science. We offered to the participants the opportunity to participate and listen to a mock trail. This workshop was sponsored by UBC CCEL via Chapman & Innovation Grants.

Business Workshop: Introduction to Business and Commerce Related Fields
September 9th, 2022

This workshop went over different careers one can pursue with a bachelor of commerce degree including investment banking/finance, accounting, and consulting. For this workshop, we partnered up with JA British Columbia who were our special guest speaks to talk about business career path as entrepreneurship. This workshop also provided a fun and interactive business case competition. This workshop was sponsored by UBC CCEL via Chapman & Innovation Grants.

Health Science Workshop: Introduction to Medicine and Healthcare fields
September 2nd, 2022

This workshop explored different path from high school and beyond for careers inn healthcare including medicine, nursing, dentistry, and pharmacy. We also offered interactive activities that demonstrated how to use a stethoscope and measure vitals. This workshop was sponsored by UBC CCEL via Chapman & Innovation Grants.
Guest speakers: Nilanga (Aki) Bandara, from UBC Medicine, and Ali Reza Ladak, from UBC PharmD

This workshop explored different types of career one can pursue with an engineering degree with UBC AgroBot team. Additionally, the engineering design teams from UBC showcased what they were working on and guided the attendees in completing a small engineering project such as building an item sorter with an Arduino kit. This workshop was sponsored by UBC CCEL via Chapman & Innovation Grants.

Teaming up with The C.O.D.E. Initiative, we provided a computer Science Workshop that explored the path to pursuing a career in computer science which will be followed an interactive activity. Attendees were offered the opportunity to create and develop a small website design programming project. This workshop was sponsored by UBC CCEL via Chapman & Innovation Grants.

Diversity in STEM workshop featured a speaker series with graduate students, medical students, and professionals in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematic academic disciplines. Our speakers themselves are immigrants/refugees and prepared to share how they were able to overcome the barriers that newcomers often have to face to succeed in reaching their STEM career goals.

This workshop titled "Life After High School" provided information on post-secondary preparation and more academic advises for high schoolers. This workshop was sponsored by the Connect to Community Grant program and the SD36 Welcome Centre.

Engineering Interactive Workshop
May 12th, 2022

Teamed up with UBC Orbit, we delivered a engineering interactive workshop based on satellites. This workshop was sponsored by the Connect to Community Grant.