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“STEM/STEAM In Action Through Hands On Innovation”Science, Technology, Engineering, (Arts) and Mathematics
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Friday, April 1, 2016 8:00 AM - 1:30 PM
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Our Nation’s security and economic prosperity depends on a highly educated
workforce with advanced skills in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
(STEM). One of this country’s greatest strengths has been its ability to creatively use
science and technology to provide solutions to the challenging problems of the day
and in the process create the businesses of tomorrow.
STEM education is critical to maintaining the United States’ standing as a global leader
in innovation and to our ability to meet future workforce demands. We need to
encourage and develop our next generation of innovators so the nation can compete
in the global economy and not get left behind. Connecting education K-12 and
businesses is paramount to our future.
As we look to the future, it is crucial to provide building blocks of what is needed
for strengthening manufacturing competitiveness, economic growth, and job
creation. Join the collaboration and engage in shaping solutions relevant to our
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April 1, 2016 Dear Colleagues and Friends, On behalf of the State University of New York, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the 6th annual STEM Diversity Summit at Farmingdale State College. I could not be more thrilled with the theme of this y STEM/STEAM in Action through Hands-On Innovation -level work the last few years as I know you have l know that we have made groundbreaking commitments both to supporting and enhancing STEAM education throughout the education pipeline and to expanding experiential learning for SUNY students like never before. I am a true believer in the value of learning by doing of immersion in real-world work scenarios, of practice, of discipline. It is especially important today, when 45 percent of adult New Yorkers hold a college degree, but in the very near future 70 percent of jobs in our state will require such a credential and the accompanying skills, especially for the most promising STEM jobs. This is why SUNY is pulling out the stops to increase student ACCESS and COMPLETION, and why Farmingdale is hosting eventfor the future. Thank you for coming together to share your expertise and insights. I have every confidence that your discussions and discoveries will pave the way for meaningful steps in elevating STEM/STEAM learning in New York and years to come. With best regards, Nancy L. Zimpher Chancellor
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April 1, 2016 Dear Summit Participants, It is my pleasure to welcome you to the 6th Annual Farmingdale State College STEM Diversity Summit. I am delighted to report that we are making considerable progress. We still have a ways to go in meeting the STEM workforce demand and, particularly, in helping underrepresented populations throughout New York State achieve in STEM. Research studies have shown that diverse teams are more successful than teams that are not diverse. The Farmingdale State College STEM Diversity Roundtable and Center is now an award-winning program, thanks to our many funding agencies, sponsors, supporters and partners. We are committed to, as the theme states, “STEM/STEAM in Action through Hands on Innovation.” I invite you to join in this effort. The urgency to act together is greater than ever. The STEM Diversity Summit, in alliance with the New York State STEP and C/STEP Programs, joining with K-12, businesses and industry, will continue to explore innovative ways to strengthen STEM teaching and learning in the 21st Century, in order to meet the pressing demands of the workforce. With this challenge and invitation, we hope that this Summit will be a stimulus in preparing leaders in STEM; garnering commitment to moving forward. On behalf of my colleagues at Farmingdale State College, STEM Diversity Roundtable and Center, thank you for your continued support and attendance. Have a great day at the Summit! Sincerely, Veronica Henry, Ed.D. Executive Assistant to the President Chief Diversity/Title IX Coordinator Farmingdale State College STEM Summit Chairperson !
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8:00 – 8:30 am - Registration & Breakfast
• Registration and Breakfast – Nold Hall
• Poster & Exhibit Set-ups – Roosevelt Hall
8:30 am - Opening - Nold Hall
Welcome Remarks: Dr. W. Hubert Keen, President, Farmingdale State College
Introduced by: Dr. Veronica Henry, Executive Assistant to the
President Chief Diversity Officer/Title IX Coordinator, STEM
Diversity Summit Chair
Greetings:Mr. Patrick Lespinasse, Director-State Government Affairs-
Verizon Communications
8:40 – 9:00 am - Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Aprille Ericsson, NASA GSFC Program Manager for Small
Business Innovative Research/Small Business Technology Transfer
Research (SBIR/STTR)
Introduced by: Dr. Keen, President, Farmingdale State College
9:00 – 9:15 am - Remarks by:
Dr. Yacov Shamash, Vice President for Economic Development,
Stony Brook University
Introduced by:
9:15 – 9:35 am - Intel Finalist Panel
Jessica Li Huang, Jericho Senior High School
Sarah Moussavi, John F. Kennedy High School-Bellmore
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna, Elmont Memorial High School
Moderator: Ms. Teresa Evans, Verizon Representative
* Breakout Sessions will be in:
Lupton Hall: Lab Rooms: 113, 165, 190, T101 Roosevelt Hall: Little Theater, Loft Lounge, Room 111 andMulti-purpose Room
9:45 – 10:30 am - Breakout SESSION 1
Lupton Hall:
• Robotic Hands and 3D Printing Technology – Room T101Instructor/Presenter: Steven Patrikus
• Microsoft Coding “Minecraft” – Lupton-Room 165 Instructor/Presenter: Tiffany Medeck, Microsoft
• STEM Mobile Lab – Lupton-Room 113Instructor/Presenter: Laura Davis, David Dickman-A+ STEM Lab
• Open Source Prototyping Platforms – Lupton-Room 190Instructor/Presenter: Dr. Fara Afshar, Cisco Certified CCNA
Security, CCNA, CCDA, Assistant Professor
Roosevelt Hall:
• STEM Search and Posters – Roosevelt-Multi-Purpose Room
• Health Careers Panel Discussion – Roosevelt-Room 111Moderator: Diane Williams, NYIT College of Osteopathic Medicine
Panelists:Dr. Jerrold G. Erves, Associate Director of Admissions and Director
of the Health Professions Mentorship Program for The Sophie Davis
School of Biomedical Education-CUNY School of Medicine
Dr. Penny Stern, North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Dr. Elizabeth McCulloch, North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Ms. Althea Palmer, North Shore-Long Island Jewish
Ms. Rosemarie Ennis, EMT & VP Community Health & Education-NSLIJ
• Real Talk about Space Travel – Little TheatreInstructor/Presenter: Elizabeth Kennick, Founding Director, Teachers
in Space, Inc.
Roosevelt Hall - Loft Lounge:
• Adult Workshop-Child and Adolescent Health IssuesPresenter: Dr. Gita Lisker, North Shore-Long Island Jewish
10:35 – 11:15 am - Breakout SESSION 2
Lupton Hall:
• STEM Mobile Lab Science Explorations – Lupton-Room 190 Instructor/Presenter: Laura Davis, David Dickman-A+ STEM Lab
• Microsoft Coding “Star Wars” – Lupton-Room 165Instructor/Presenter: Tiffany Medeck, Microsoft
• Liquid Nitrogen Fun – Lupton-Room 113Instructor/Presenter: Angela Guglielmini, Farmingdale State College
• Harnessing Light on the Nanoscale – Room T101Instructor/Presenter: Dr. Huizhong Xu, Associate Professor of Physics,
St. John’s University
Roosevelt Hall:
• STEM Search and Posters - Multi-Purpose Room
• How to Prepare for a Career in STEM - Little TheaterPresenter: Dr. Christine Veloso, Stony Brook University
• Show Me the Money – Roosevelt-Room 111Presenter: Gale Cunningham, Recognizing Education’s Application
to Life (R.E.A.L.)
Roosevelt Hall - Loft Lounge:
• Adult Workshop- Health Careers-The Sophie Davis Schoolof Biomedical EducationPresenter: Dr. Jerrold G. Erves, Associate Director of Admissions
and Director of the Health Professions Mentorship Program for The
Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education-CUNY School of Medicine
11:15 am – 12:30 pm – Lunch and Networking - Nold Hall
12:35 – 1:30 pm - Closing - Nold Hall
• Poster Awards – Dr. Bahar Zoghi, Farmingdale State College
• Raffles and Closing Remarks Presented by:
Summit Co-Chairs:Ms. Risa Stein, Ms. Teresa Evans, Mr. David Perkins
Closing Remarks By:Ms. Risa Stein, Associate Director - STEP/CSTEP
STEM Planning Committee:Ms. Laura Davis, Ms. Tory Hare, Ms. Veronica Jennings,Ms. Sybil Mimy Johnson, Ms. Sylvia Navarro-Nicosia, Mr. John Russo, Ms. Marijean Scardapane, Ms. Andrea Thomas, Mr. Bill Waibel, Ms. Diane Williams
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Dr. Aprille Joy Ericsson, is the former Deputy to the Chief Technologist for theApplied Engineering & Technology Directorate at NASA Goddard Space Flight
Center (GSFC). Her primary focus as a Technologist has been Advanced Manufacturing,Applied Nanotechnology, miniaturization of Technology for CubeSat and SmallSat space platforms. Currently, Dr. Ericssonserves as the NASA GSFC Program Manager for Small Business Innovative Research/Small Business Technology TransferResearch (SBIR/STTR). This SBA funded program enables small businesses and small businesses collaborating with universities,respectively, to compete for opportunities to solve selected R&D challenges faced by various government agencies within theUnited States. NASA’s SBIR/STTR programs are designed to foster entrepreneurial innovations while simultaneously solvingcritical NASA R&D challenges.
She was born in Brooklyn, NY, educated in the NYC public schools, and later in Cambridge, MA.. She received her B.S. inAeronautical and Astronautical Engineering at the MIT. She received her Masters of Engineering and Ph.D. in MechanicalEngineering at Howard University (HU) with an Aerospace option. She has been a guest researcher at Harvard/RadcliffeUniversity.
The majority of Dr. Ericsson’s 25+ years engineering career has been at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) in theEngineering Directorate. Initially, she worked in the Guidance Navigation & Control discipline conducting spacecraft simulationsand analysis to predict their dynamic behavior during flight and to determine the best spacecraft attitude and structural vibrationcontrol methods. Dr. Ericsson has also worked at NASA HQs as a Program Executive for the Earth Science Enterprise and aResource Manager for the Space Science Enterprise. For 10 years, she has been Instrument Project Manager (IM) for variousinstruments which include: the Near-Infrared Spectrograph on the James Webb Space Telescope, the Project Engineer for theLunar Orbiter Laser Altimeter which launched April 2009, on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. For 3.5 years she served as theDeputy Instrument Project Manager for ICESat-2’s sole instrument the Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS),a $480M lidar instrument that will continue the important observations of ice-sheet elevation change, sea-ice freeboard, andvegetation canopy height begun by ICESat(-I) in 2003.
Dr. Ericsson serves on numerous boards, and in community leadership positions. Currently, she serves on the MIT IndustryAdvisory Council on Minority Education and the National Academy of Engineering Board on Higher Education and Workforce.Recently, she served as the Chair of the Board of Directors for the HU Public Charter Middle School of Mathematics and Scienceand HU Trustee. She has been recognized as an outstanding technical leader, and above all else a coach, mentor, and friend toyoung people of all ages across the nation.
Dr. Ericsson has enjoyed playing competitive softball, flag football, basketball, and enjoys drawing, cycling, and skiing. Currently,she coaches T-ball in the DC Banneker League. She has a 6-year old daughter who enjoys playing T-ball and attendingconferences with her.
She is proud to be the first (African American) female to receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from HU; the first Americanto receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, the Aerospace option from HU; and the first African American female to receivea Ph.D. in Engineering at NASA GSFC.
Morning Keynote Speaker
NASA GSFC Program Manager
Dr. Aprille EricssonDr. Aprille Ericsson
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Guest Speaker
Vice President for Economic Development, Stony Brook University
Dr. Yacov Shamash
Dr. Shamash is the Vice President for Economic Development at Stony BrookUniversity. Dr. Shamash supervises the University’s four incubators, three NewYork State Centers for Advanced Technology (Medical Biotechnology, Sensor Sys-tems and Integrated Electric Energy Systems); two New York State Centers of Excellence (Wireless and Information Tech-nology (CEWIT), and the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC)); the Small Business DevelopmentCenter; and the workforce development programs of the Center for Emerging Technologies. In 1995, Dr. Shamash ledSUNY’s colleges of engineering to create the statewide Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) program.Stony Brook’s cumulative results include more than 3,100 projects completed with more than 490 companies, helping com-pany partners win more than $95 million in competitive federal awards.
During the period from 1992 to 2015 Dr. Shamash served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences atStony Brook University. Under his leadership, the College expanded from 1500 to over 5000 students with average SATscores of entering undergraduate students increasing from 1150 to 1343, and external research expenditures increasing sixfold to $30 million per year. Prior to joining Stony Brook University in 1992, Dr. Shamash served as the Director of theSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University and was the founding Director ofthe National Science Foundation Industry/ University Center for the Design of Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits. Dr.Shamash is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Keytronic Corporation and Applied DNA Inc. He is also a mem-ber of the Board of Directors for the Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet) and the Long Island AngelNetwork. Dr. Shamash has also held faculty positions at Florida Atlantic University, the University of Pennsylvania and TelAviv University. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Imperial College of Science and Technology inLondon, England. He has authored more than 130 publications and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Dr. Yacov Shamash
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2016 Intel Science Talent Search - Panelists
Jessica Li Huang2016 Intel Finalist
Jericho Senior High School
A senior at Jericho Senior High School,Jessica was selected for her project enti-tled, Redefining the Neurological Basis ofFluid Intelligence: Investigating NetworkStrength and Normalized Degree of Rest-ing State Functional Connectivity.
Sarah Moussavi2016 Intel Semi-Finalist
JFK High School-Bellmore
A senior at John F. Kennedy HighSchool was recently named for herresearch entitled: Metacognition andConfidence in a Perceptual DecisionMaking Task.
Augusta Uwamanzu-Nna2016 Intel Finalist
Elmont Memorial High School
A senior at Elmont Memorial HighSchool, Augusta was named as a final-ist for her project entitled RheologicalCharacterization of Attapulgite Nan-oclay Modified Cement Slurries forOil Well Cementing Applications.
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Summit Consultants
Summit Co-Chairs
Presenters
Dr. Fara AfsharCisco Certified CCNASecurity, CCNA, CCDA,Assistant Professor
Ms. Risa Stein,Associate Director
STEP/CSTEP, Farmingdale State College
Dr. Jerrold G. ErvesAssociate Dir. of Admis-sions & Dir. of the HealthProfessions MentorshipProgram for The SophieDavis School
Ms. Laura DavisA+ STEM Labs
Dr. Gita Lisker North Shore-LongIsland Jewish
Ms. Elizabeth KennickFounding Director, Teachers in Space, Inc.
Dr. Elizabeth McCulloch North Shore-Long IslandJewish
Ms. Sybil MimyJohnsonExecutive Director-Boys & Girls Clubof the Bellport Area
Ms. Althea PalmerNorth Shore-Long IslandJewish
Ms. Tiffany MedeckCommunity DevelopmentSpecialist at the MicrosoftStore
Ms. Andrea ThomasDeputy Title IXCoordinator andDir. of CommunityEngagement-Farming-dale State College
Ms. Tory T. HareCreative Director,Long Island EducationalOpportunity Center, andEntrepreneur TechnologyCenter Coordinator
Mr. Steven D. PatrikisNew York Institute ofTechnology (NYIT)Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Christine VelosoAssistant Director -STEP/CSTEP,Stony Brook University
Dr. Penny Stern North Shore-Long Is-land Jewish
Ms. Rosemarie Ennis EMT & VP CommunityHealth & Education-NSLIJ
Mr. David DickmanA+ STEM Labs
Ms. Gale CunninghamRecognizing Education’sApplication to Life(R.E.A.L.)
Diane M. WilliamsSTEP Program Manager
NYIT College of OsteopathicMedicine
Ms. Teresa Evans,Human Resources &Diversity Consultant
Mr. David Perkins,LCSW District Wide Project Excel Coordinator, S. Huntington UFSD
Dr. Bahar ZoghiFarmingdale StateCollege
Mr. William WeibelA+ STEM Labs
Dr. Huizhong Xu Associate Professorof Physics, St. John’sUniversity
Ms. Angela
Guglielmini Farmingdale State
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Through their generous support the following organizations helped to make
the STEM Diversity Summit possible. Their efforts are much appreciated.
Long Island Chapter, Inc.
ASCAuxilary Services Corp.