At 23, Sophia Roy is this year\u0027s \u0022exceptional\u0022 addition to the prestigious club of female engineering talent known as the Order of the White Rose.
She is on an accelerated path to a doctorate at Polytechnique Montréal, where her research subject is decarbonizing the energy-intensive process for making steel, responsible for a whopping 10 per cent of worldwide CO2 emissions.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
For these accomplishments and her enormous potential — deemed “rare” for someone her age and “exceptional” by Michèle Prévost, president of the jury — Roy was inducted into theShe was awarded a $30,000 bursary created in memory of the 14 women who were murdered during the femicide at Polytechnique on Dec. 6, 1989, at an emotional ceremony that aims to bring light from the depths of darkness and defy the misogynist intent of the gunman.
Thibodeau-DeGuire, who hid under her desk that night, said it is now “a privilege to take part in a joyous event.
“Every year, when we hear about it on TV, it was an opportunity to talk about the events,” Sioris said. “It raises a lot of questions, like ‘Why those women? Why them when all they were doing was going to school, studying in engineering?’ It was an opening to have a lot of discussions about society.”Article content
Roy said her mother, an industrial engineer, is her main role model, helping her to forge a path in their shared field at their shared alma mater.
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