LMAG: STEM Engagement - kick-off

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This is the STEM engagement kick-off.

 



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  • Date: 31 May 2023
  • Time: 06:00 PM to 07:30 PM
  • All times are (UTC-10:00) Hawaii
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  • Starts 16 May 2023 01:51 PM
  • Ends 31 May 2023 04:00 PM
  • All times are (UTC-10:00) Hawaii
  • No Admission Charge


  Speakers

Gene of Hawaii Section Life Member Affinity Group chair

Topic:

Launching TryEngineering

We have funding for four STEM events.

Our STEM outreach program

-- Why TryEngineering!

-- The need for STEM outreach

       -- selecting the first events

-- Beyond first steps.

 

Biography:

Retired technology executive, entrepreneur, inventor, product manager, and standards engineer (ITU, ANSI, IEEE, IETF).

Currently entrepreneurship mentor at The eForum (MIT) and PACE, UH Shidler School of Management

Email:

Stu

Topic:

Arizona Science Lab

Stuart will introduce us to the Arizona Science Lab program. ASL was launched with the TryEngineering program in 2009. They went on to develop their own curriculum. 

Biography:

Stuart Wecker is a successful entrepreneur, technologist and teacher with over forty years of experience in data networks and distributed information systems. He was the recipient of the first IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award and was named a Fellow of both the IEEE and the ACM professional societies for his pioneering contributions to data networking technology.

He was the founder of Technology Concepts Inc., a company focused on data network software engineering, and has been a Professor of Computer Science at Northeastern University in Boston, the University of California at Berkeley, and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

Mr. Wecker received a B.S. in mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. in computer science from the State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY.






Agenda

* 30 min  Speaker from Arizona Science Lab -- they are a great role model of what can be done.

* 30 min. Organizing our first four events.... we have funding for these events

     TryEngineering!

     Community Demand

    Signing up volunteers

    Next steps