STEM Solutions 2015 in San Diego, CA
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- Opening Keynote Welcome with Ray King of Urban League of San Diego County
- Ray King
- Wanda M. Austin, Ph.D. of The Aerospace Corporation
- Timothy P. White, Ph.D. of California State University
- Panel: Making STEM Diversity a National Priority
- Keynote moderator: Leland Melvin
- Michael L. Lomax, Ph.D. of UNCF
- Michael L. Lomax, Ph.D. of UNCF
- Attendees on their way to the Exhibit Hall
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Opening Keynote Part 2: A Conversation with U.S. Secretary of Labor, Thomas E. Perez
- Opening Keynote Part 2: A Conversation with U.S. Secretary of Labor, Thomas E. Perez
- Opening Keynote Audience
- Opening Keynote Audience
- Opening Keynote Audience
- Session 1G: The Power of Partnerships
- Session 1G: Meisha Sherman of Hewlett-Packard
- Session 1G: Patricia Brown of National Academy Foundation
- Session 1G: Audience
- Session 1F: Enlightening Minds – Dianna Cowern, Physics Girl
- Session 1F: Enlightening Minds – Andrea Beaty, Children’s Author
- Session 1F: Audience
- Session 1A: Engaging Parents in Their Children’s STEM Educations
- Session 1A: Audience
- Session 1A: Audience
- Session 1A: Audience
- Session 1A: Arva Rice of New York Urban League
- Session 1A: Tara Chklovski of Iridescent
- Session 1E: Recruiting and Retaining Women and Minorities in Your Workforce
- Session 1E: Audience
- Session 1E: Chad Womack, Ph.D. of UNCF
- Session 1D: HBCU and HSI Advantage
- Session 1D: Audience
- Session 1D: Audience
- Session 1D: Ricardo Romo, Ph.D. of The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Session 2H1: SoCal’s Industry Engagement in STEAM
- Session 2H1: Pedro Villegas of SDGE and Shari Asplund of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Session 2H1: James E. Herr of California Community Foundation and Vanessa Pereda of Boeing
- Session 2H1: Audience
- Session 2H1: Audience
- Session 2H1: Audience
- Session 2H4: Mike Grice of Medtech & Biotech Veterans Program
- Session 2H4: Matt Brogdon of Microsoft and Beth McCormick of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Session 2H5: Cybersecurity: STEM Steam Engine – Erik Caldwell of The City of San Diego
- Session 2H5: Gary Hayslip of The City of San Diego
- Session 2H2: Devin Vodicka, Ed.D. of Vista Unified School District
- Session 2H2: Ed Hidalgo of Qualcomm
- Session 2H2: Audience
- Session 2H2: Audience
- Session 2H3: Diverse Scientific Leadership
- Session 2H3: Brooke Pinnix of Ocean Discovery Institute
- Interaction in the Chevron Lounge
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Opening Night Reception in the Exhibit Hall
- Gary R. Bertoline, Ph.D. of Purdue Polytechnic Institute
- Audience for Dr. Bertoline’s Remarks During the Opening Night Reception
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 2 Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Tuesday Morning Keynote: STEM Spotlights with Linda Kelkelis, Ph.D. of Techbridge
- Tuesday Morning Keynote: STEM Spotlights with Anna M. Park of Great Minds in STEM
- Tuesday Morning Keynote Panel: STEM Role Models: Lighting the Way to Career Success
- Panelist Stephanie Reeves of Chevron
- Panelist Durrell Hightower of LA Freightliner with Blair Blackwell of Chevron (moderator)
- Panelists Jose Romero-Mariona, Ph.D. and Racquel C. Jemison, Ph.D.
- Tuesday Morning Keynote Panelists
- Tuesday Morning Keynote Audience
- Tuesday Morning Keynote Audience
- Session 3G: OC STEM – Gerald R. Solomon of Samueli Foundation (moderator)
- Session 3G: OC STEM – Panelist Katherine Bihr, Ed.D. of Tiger Woods Foundation
- Sesssion 3G: OC STEM – Panelist Jeff Hittenberger, Ph.D. of Orange County Department of Education
- Session 3G Audience
- Session 3G Audience
- Session 3D: Expert Roundtables
- Session 3D: Expert Roundtables
- Session 3D: Expert Roundtables
- Session 3D: Expert Roundtables
- Session 3A: Opening the Doors: Cultivating College Access and Completion
- Session 3A: Panelist Sandy Husk, Ph.D. of AVID Center
- Session 3A: Christopher Yanov of Reality Changers with Edward Abeyta, Ph.D. of University of California (moderator)
- Session 3A: Panelist Matthew Fasciano of Posse Foundation
- Session 3E1: Executive Workshop Hidden Gems: The Corporate STEM Workforce
- Session 3E1: Panelist Sarah Toulouse of Bayer Corp.
- Session 3E1: Audience
- Session 3E1: Audience
- Session 3E1: Audience
- Session 3E1: Audience
- Session 3E1: Panelist Steve Woodhead of Chevron
- Session 3E2: Panelist Nicole Rigg of Chevron
- Session 4B: Panelist Judith Dimas of Hidalgo Early College High School
- Session 4B: Panelist Cass Conrad of City University of New York
- Session 4A: Focus on Minority Males – Panelist Andre H. Sayles of U.S. Department of Energy
- Session 4A: Panelist J. Luke Wood Ph.D. of San Diego State University
- Session 4A: Panelist John Michael Lee, Jr., Ph.D. of Florida A&M University
- Session 4A: Panelist Jon Guerena of Deloitte Consulting
- Session 4A: Ray King of Urban League of San Diego County (moderator)
- Session 4A: Audience
- Session 4C: Patrick D’Amelio of Washington STEM (moderator)
- Session 4C: Panelists Cynthia Pulkowski, Ed.D of ASSET STEM Education and Thomas M. Smith, Ph.D. of University of California Riverside
- Session 4E: Expert Roundtables
- Session 4E: Expert Roundtables
- Session 4E: Expert Roundtables
- Session 4F: Enlightening Minds – Sheryl Sorby, Ph.D. of Ohio State University
- Chevron Lounge
- Chevron Lounge
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- STEM Solutions Stage: Errika Mallett of gifted Education Foundation
- STEM Solutions Stage: Nino Polizzi of Rocket Science Tutors
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- Exhibit Hall Impressions
- 2015 STEM Leadership Hall of Fame Honorees
- 2015 STEM Leadership Hall of Fame Honorees
- Introduction by Charles Peters of Emerson
- Eduardo J. Padron, Ph.D. of Miami Dade College
- Shirley Malcom, Ph.D. of AAAS
- Craig R. Barrett, Ph.D. of Intel Corporation
- Maria Klawe, Ph.D. of Harvey Mudd College
- Riley Bechtel (for Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr.)
- Congresswoman Susan Davis
- Hall of Fame Luncheon Audience
- Hall of Fame Luncheon Audience
- Build-a-Backpack with First Book
- Build-a-Backpack with First Book
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Exhibit Hall Impresssions
- Networking at the Chevron Lounge
- Session 5E: A Ready-Made Employee – Rob Vallentine of The Chemical Company (moderator)
- Session 5E: Panelist Jason Fiori of The Dow Chemical Company
- Session 5E: Panelist Jane Neyer of Dow AgroSciences
- Session 5F: One-on-One w/ Joan C. Collins
- Session 5A: Audrey Goins Brichi of Chevron
- Session 5A: Audrey Goins Brichi of Chevron, Kimberly Wright Cassidy of Bryn Mawr College, Linda Hallman of AAUW
- Session 5B: Finding Common Ground
- Session 5B: Panelist Chris Minnich of Council of Chief State School Officers
- Session 5B: Panelist Peter A’Hearn of Palm Springs Unified School District
- Session 5B: Panelist Okhee Lee, Ph.D. of New York University
- Session 5D: Community Colleges – Panelists Cindy Miles, Ph.D. of Grossmont-Cuyamaca Community College District and Jerome Parker, Ph.D. of Delaware County Community College
- Session 5D: Chris Roe of California STEM Learning Network (moderator)
- Session 5D: Panelist Jean Hernandez, Ed.D. of Edmonds Community College
- Session 6B: High-Poverty, High-Performing Schools
- Session 6B: Panelist Devin Vodicka, Ed.D. of Vista Unified School District
- Session 6B: Ryan J. Smith of The Education Trust-West
- Session 6B: Audience
- Session 6B: Audience
- Session 6D: Beefing Up Career and Technical Education
- Session 6E: Panelist Daniel Sullivan, Ph.D. of Qualcomm
- Session 6E: Panelist Diana Bilimoria, Ph.D. of Case Western Reserve University
- Session 6E: Panelist Elizabeth Clark of Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
- Session 6C: Panelist Deborah Stipek, Ph.D. of Stanford Graduate School of Education
- Session 6C: Ray Almgren of National Instruments (moderator)
- Session 6C: Panelist Arthur Levine, Ph.D. of Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
- Session 6C: Panelist Joan S. Bissell, Ed.D. of California State University
- Session 6A: The Way to Science is Through a Girl’s Heart
- Session 6A: Panelist Linda Kekelis, Ph.D. of Techbridge
- Session 6A: Panelist Courtney Tanenbaum, Ed.D. of American Institutes for Research
- Session 6A: Audience
- Day 3: Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 3: Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 3: Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 3: Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 3: Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Day 3: Breakfast Roundtable Discussions
- Session 7A: One-on-One with Fredi Lajvardi
- Session 7A: Congressman Scott Peters (moderator), 52nd District of California
- Session 7A: Panelist Fredi Lajvardi of Carl Hayden Community High School
- Session 7E: Leading the Way: The K-12-Corporate Connection
- Session 7E: Panelist Sauri Naderi of Qualcomm
- Session 7E: Audience
- Session 7E: Audience
- Session 7E: Audience
- Session 7E: Panelist Sandy Slivka, Ph.D. of Southern California Biotchnology Center
- Session 7D: You Are What You Know: The Move Toward Competency-Based Programs
- Session 7D: Panelist, Gary Bertoline, Ph.D., Purdue University
- Session 7D
- Session 7G: The Power of Partnerships: Supporting Student Achievement in STEM
- Session 7G: Panelist Matthew Randazzo of National Math and Science Initiative
- Session 7G: Panelist Sarah Moynes of Serra High School
- Session 7G: Panelist Camylle Coley of Department of Defense
- Session 7G: Audience
- Session 7F: Enlightening Minds
- Session 7F: Panelists Liisa Bozinovic, Biocom Institute and Jessica Gilmartin, Piazza
- Session 7F: Audience
- Session 8B: Getting an Early Jump on STEM
- Session 8B: Panelist Douglas Clements, Ph.D. of Morgridge College of Education
- Session 8B: Panelist Wanyonyi Kendrick of Northeast Florida Regional STEM2 Hub
- Session 8E: The Job Landscape Today – and Tomorrow: The San Diego View
- Session 8E: Panelist Ed Hidalgo of Qualcomm
- Session 8E: Panelist Peter Callstrom of San Diego Workforce Partnership
- Session 8E: Panelist Brian Edward Alvara, Sr. of US Navy
- Session 8E: Panelist Darryl Albertson, Ph.D. of Cubic Corporation
- Session 8C: The Short-Term Demand for STEM Educators
- Session 8C: Panelists John Ewing, Ph.D., Math for America; Belle Faust, Ph.D., PEBC; Ayeola Kinlaw, 100Kin10
- Session 8C: Panelist Lupita Cortez Alcalá of California Department of Education
- Session 8D: One-on-One with Cynthia Bir, Ph.D., The University of Southern California
- Session 8D: Senator Marty Block, California State (moderator)
- Session 8D: Audience
- Session 8F: Enlightening Minds, Barbara Oakley, Ph.D., Oakland University
- Session 8F: Suveen Mathaudhu, Ph.D., University of California, Riverside
- Session 8F: Audience
- Closing Keynote: Mayor Kevin Faulconer, San Diego City
- Closing Keynote: Mayor Kevin Faulconer, San Diego City
- Closing Keynote: Karen E. Nelson, Ph.D. of J. Craig Venter Institute
- Closing Keynote: Karen E. Nelson, Ph.D. of J. Craig Venter Institute
- Closing Keynote Audience
- Closing Keynote Audience
- Closing Keynote Audience
- Closing Keynote Audience
- Closing Keynote: Panelists
- Closing Keynote: Panelists
- Closing Keynote: Panelists
- Closing Keynote: Barbara McAllister of Diversity in Technology Initiative Intel Corporation
- Closing Keynote: Panelists
All photos on this page are by Brett Ziegler for USN&WR and are ©2019 U.S. News & World Report, L.P. All rights reserved. You may share these photos by linking to this page. Requests for use of these photos should be directed to conferences@usnews.com.
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