A young Tibetan girl has won the Engineers Gold Medal Student Award of Canada. The top award in recognition of outstanding engineers of Canada under students category this year has been conferred up the Tibetan origin girl. The Tibetan girl is an active person engaged in various social activities while pursuing her studies.
Dolma is an Integrated Engineering student at the University of British Columbia. In this multidisciplinary program, she has focused on technology innovation that promotes social justice, equity, and quality of life. As a student, she was selected to be the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation’s Ambassador for British Columbia for her work with underrepresented groups in engineering.
She was also selected as a Daughters of the Vote Delegate in 2019, where she represented her federal riding in the House of Commons of Canada. She was later awarded a Rosemary Speirs Leadership Grant from the Government of Canada’s Department for Women and Gender Equality. With this grant, she founded the “Activism Through Technology and Art” collective, which raises awareness for humanitarian issues.
She is the CEO and Co-Founder of “Flutter Wear,” a company whose technology promotes a positive and informed pregnancy experience for expectant mothers. Their team has received funding from UBC’s Faculty of Medicine, the Royal Bank of Canada, the Medical Device Development Center, the Canadian Medical Association, and Innovation UBC. She also pitched this project at the Startup of Holland Competition in the Netherlands where it received 1st place. She is currently pursuing this venture with support from the Cansbridge Fellowship, a program designed to help young Canadians innovate across borders and become the “global leaders of tomorrow.”
Dolma prioritizes community involvement, and values compassion, initiative, and humility. Having led outreach initiatives for young women and girls across British Columbia, she has had the honour of seeing these collective efforts help them realize engineering as a path to fight for the causes they care for, and envision themselves as innovators.
The Gold Medal Award bestows distinction on outstanding engineers and recognizes exceptional achievements in their chosen fields. The selection committee gives consideration to continued leadership in the profession and in the community, to outstanding achievements, and to recognition obtained. Nominees are rated on the basis of work related achievements, service to profession and service to community and they are selected by the Awards Committee of Engineers Canada.