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As the day draws closer to the launch,
one can only exude so much enthusi-
asm as to what is Elevate Trust. With
how the Zimbabwean Economy is fast
moving to the world of STEM indus-
tries, what is the drive and vehicle to
take us there….Elevate Trust is the key!
STEMfem Network
Elevate Trust aims to be a part of the
collaborative effort to inspire students
to take up STEM related career options,
contribute towards achieving gender
parity in the STEM field workforce and
fuel industrialization through youth
The STEMfem Network is a platform
for capacity building, networking and
nurturing of females in the field of
STEM. Its main goal is to improve the
interaction of higher and tertiary edu-
cation female students in STEM with
the women in industry to better
prepare female students to enter
the male dominated industry. The
bias towards females is aimed at
achieving gender parity in STEM
fields.
Innovators’ Hub Club
IHC is a club which assists in in-
creasing tertiary students’ interest
in STEM subjects through aware-
ness about career option’s, develop-
ment of STEM related businesses
and STEM socio-economic problem
solving. Activities include, club
meetings, boot camps, innovators
fairs, job shadowing, mentorship
Programmes, seminars, entrepre-
neurship training, community work
and career guidance days.
SciTechInc Lab
SciTechInc is designed to help sci-
entists commercialize their innova-
tive research ideas. SciTechInc cov-
ers a range of STEM disciplines with
a bias towards bio-innovations. The
project focuses on making science a
business rather than a career, hence
our tagline “Science Pays”.
capacity building and commercializa-
tion of research ideas in the field of
With only a few days to the amazing
Science and Technology. All of which,
launch of Innovators Hub Club, SciTe-
ultimately drives socio economic de-
chInc Lab and Stemfem Network to be
velopment and improves the livelihood
hosted at Cresta Lodge in the Capital
of its people.
Cofounded by Sicelo Dube, a Mandela
on the 2nd of March 2018, emotions
Washington Fellowship alumnus,
rise as universities, business people,
President of the Zimbabwe Science
school students impatiently await for
STEM is an acronym that is curriculum Laboratory Technicians Association
the launch. It’s always intriguing if
based and predicated on the notion of one can only tell that this venture is
someone religiously and committedly
educating students in four specific dis- headed for a big growth, for us to move
finds a solution to a problem you have
ciplines; SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, EN- on we must embrace it at a larger
been facing as this is the case for Ele-
GINEERING and MATHEMATICS. This scale!
vate Trust. STEM, originates from the
will result in job creation for science
United Nations education initiatives
‘IT’S NOT WHAT IS OUTSIDE THE CUP
graduates and it is a sure way of spear-
publicized in 2008. The Ministry of
THAT MAKES THE WHOLE DIFFER-
heading innovation and industrializa-
Higher and Tertiary education, Science
ENCE BUT WHATS IN THE CUP THAT
tion in science.
and Technology development
MAKES THE MOST SIGNIFICANCE’
The
three
projects
that
will
be
(Zimbabwe) recently moved for the
launched on the day are:
adoption of STEM initiatives.