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<\/p>\nA Mississauga student won a top Ontario engineering scholarship.<\/p>\n
Originally from Mississauga, Marwa Zaryab, a second-year University of Waterloo engineering student, won Hydro One\u2019s\u00a0Women in Engineering Scholarship, earning\u00a0$5,000\u00a0and a\u00a0paid co\u2011op placement in Ontario\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n
Zaryab, 19, attended Rick Hansen Secondary School in Mississauga and found a passion for engineering and robotics through her older brothers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am the first woman to study engineering in my family,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She chose to study systems design engineering because it combines different types of engineering to manage complex systems. While her program has a high number of female students, other engineering programs remain male-dominated, she said.<\/p>\n
People who study systems design engineering can go on to project management. Zaryab hopes to work in software or robotics engineering.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI just want to work for a company that does good for other people,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
While a high school student in 2024, she restarted a school program that brought programming workshops for children living in a refugee hotel.<\/p>\n
Zaryab said the program was an outreach initiative from her high school robotics team, but it hadn\u2019t run in over four years.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I found out about it, I really wanted to bring it back,\u201d she said. \u201cI really care about accessibility in education.\u201d<\/p>\n
About 50 to 60 kids showed up. They were aged 3 to 14 and spoke little to no English, she said. They used visuals to help the kids understand, and it worked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see the impact it had on them by how they smiled,\u201d she said. \u201cYou knew how much they had been through because they fled their country because of war or conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n
The experience was very rewarding.<\/p>\n
\u201cBeing able to show them a little bit about engineering and education\u2026it was a really good experience,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Zaryab said winning the scholarship was validating and she is happy to promote women in engineering.<\/p>\n
\u201cHaving a platform to talk about these things is really great,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Her paid co-op position in software engineering is this summer in Toronto.<\/p>\n