Beginning in 2014, the integrative STEM Team Advancing Networks of Diversity (iSTAND), under the direction of Dr Jennifer Jakobi, has worked to recruit, support and increase participation by underrepresented persons in STEM by engaging youth in educational outreach activities at UBC Okanagan and communities throughout BC.

Since 2021, Dr Jakobi has used her NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering to build equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM enterprises throughout BC and the Yukon through the Westcoast Women in Engineering Science and Technology (WWEST) program, and iSTAND operates as the youth outreach arm of WWEST – click below to learn more!