Julie Tyios Tells Us About Tech Girls Canada!

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Tech Girls Canada is an organization that advocates for women in STEM in Canada through various programs, advocacy, and events. I stumbled across it by accident in my CivicGeek work, and promptly discovered an amazing organization with fascinating people. Since we know there’s problems with female representation in STEM and related professions, let’s find out what people are doing to solve the problems. Julie Tyios, one of the co-founders, took the time to talk to us!

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Geeking Out To A Better Diet

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Don’t worry, this isn’t going to turn into some preachy tract on healthy eating or how I “found” the latest diet fad. I’m pretty tired of food-as-religion-of-the-day myself. No, this is basically how my geek inclinations helped me get healthier, mostly via eating better – in a way I enjoyed.

I’ve thought about writing on this subject for MuseHack on and off but let’s face it, the site is “Applied Geek” and applying geekery to health fits that vein. Besides, whenever we hear the latest news about how awful people’s diets/habits/exercise/etc. it’s constantly bad – so maybe we should do something.

Do it our way.

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