STEM Fall 2023 Calendar of Events

• Date: Friday, September 29
• Time: 12 noon - 1:30 pm
• Location: SL 109

A team of engineers from Northrop/Grumman will speak on the work they do designing, developing, building, and supporting some of the world’s most advanced products: making a 200-ton airplane invisible, predicting cyber-attacks before they happen, or solving the mysteries of the universe!

• Refreshments
• Door prizes

See what Northrop/Grumman does.

• Date: Wednesday October 18
• Time: 1:30 pm
• Location: SL 116

SCC Professor Wally Olsen and Retired Detective Ed Tuttle discuss traffic enforcement and collision investigations. With over 30 years of experience, they specialized in the Science of investigating fatal & serious injury accidents – vehicular, pedestrian, & industrial crashes.

• Refreshments
• Door prizes

• Date: Wednesday November 15
• Time: Part 1, The Science of Art, 1:30 pm
• Time: Part 2, A Class in Origami, 3:30 pm
• Location: SL 116 

Robert Lang, former NASA physicist and foremost expert in origami, will show how folded art allows us to solve real-world practical problems in the fields of science, engineering, technology, medicine, and more. Note: all paper origami pieces were completed with one piece of paper.

• Refreshments
• Door prizes

Visit Robert Lang's website.

• Date: Wednesday, December 6
• Time: 3:30 pm
• Location: SL 116

Steve Mutz will give a powerful presentation about Eta Carinae, a stellar system containing at least two stars with a combined luminosity greater than five million times that of the Sun. See SCC’s planetarium as well!

• Refreshments
• Door prizes